No Apathy Is My Strategy

Daily writing promptWhat strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?View all responses

My strategy for mental health and well-being is to have no apathy. I strive to keep my heart filled with kindness, caring, and compassion so that I can help people by humbly speaking the truth in love. (Ephesians 4:14) It’s not easy. In fact, I have a daily fight to deny myself (Luke 9:23) and to make my thoughts, feelings, desires, and opinions obey the risen Jesus Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:5)

Hearts that know information about God but don’t know His ways will go astray. (Hebrews 3:10) Knowledge about God should never be a replacement for an intimate relationship with God the Holy Spirit — “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)

Refuse to harden your heart. Make it your lifestyle to continually listen to, hear, and obey God’s inner voice. (Hebrews 3:15) Daily encourage people to avoid the hardness of the world’s deception by ceaselessly sharing in, surrendering to, and obeying the inner leading of Christ’s Spirit. (Hebrews 3:13-14)

Christianity’s not
Information you know
Or a religious show.
It’s letting God’s Spirit
Directly lead and flow
So that you grow and grow
With the power to go
And demonstrate Jesus
To everyone you meet.
Nurture God’s inner flow.
(John 7:38-39, Acts 1:8, & Romans 8:14)

There is a handbook, a guidebook, to help you align with God the Holy Spirit. It’s the book that tells me who I am and why I am the way I am better than any book I’ve ever read. It is the Bible. Jesus uses it to open wide my eyes to His light and to help me hear His inner voice. That’s why I believe it. That’s why I read and savor it daily letting it shape and reform my heart. That’s why I do my best to not just be a hearer of the word, but to be an ongoing doer of the word. (James 1:22) Go beyond depressing apathy to uplifting joy.