The World of Convenience

The world is pampering us with convenience that is why it’s easy for us to give up on people. It is easy to call it quit when the going gets tough with the people we are serving. From convenience store, buying online, ordering food at the comfort of home, drive through teller for money withdrawal and yes, even entering a store, the door opens for you! We are becoming a lazy generation without us even knowing it! That is why at the smallest discomfort we quit.

This is very telling in terms of our family, career, love life and service.

1.   We quit on our family. We don’t visit or talk to them we are too busy. We don’t even help them; we only go back when we need them only to realize it’s too late anymore.

2.   We quit on our job so easily. A little struggle here and there with co-workers, boss or even on work itself, we resign. We don’t aspire to study and improve ourselves.

3.   We quit on love life. We change relationships like changing a wardrobe! Worst, we don’t even own the wardrobe we just use them!

4.   We quit on service. If it stresses you out, it’s not going your way, it’s encroaching on your “life”, we quit!

So okay, all valid reasons, so maybe somebody should have told your parents not to get pregnant of you because it was inconvenient. Or, somebody should tell companies not to hire you because you cannot handle stress, co-workers and the boss. Or maybe, somebody should broadcast to all the sisters (if you are a brother) or to all brothers (if you are a sister) that you are a user and you just wear them at your comfort and then discard them. Or maybe, somebody should tell God to stop looking after you, stop serving you and stop listening at your prayers because it’s too uncomfortable and inconvenient for Him to serve you. Maybe this is fair.

“I’ll serve as long as it fits me. If it fits with my lifestyle, my schedule and my stage of life, then okay.” This is a very narrow way of looking at things. God did not created us out of convenience. Serving out of convenience is not service it's just filling out your spare time. It is devoid of sacrifice. Service without sacrifice is no service at all!

The story of creation or the entire salvation history culminating in the passion, death and resurrection of our Lord for that matter is not a story of convenience. If this is our gauge, then I think we need to change our perspective on service for certainly our salvation was not out of convenience.

Lord, may we not look for convenience in serving You, but when difficulties come, grant us the grace to find use and joy of it. Amen.

by aats