Challenging Normal

This post is a little personal for me. Usually when I feel a funk creeping to my life I can trace it back to needing to rest. Going weeks and weeks without having a Sabbath. It will affect your spiritual, emotional, and even physical health if you let it. If you are not careful you begin to believe that the world will not continue to go around if you rest, that things can not function without you.

Perry Noble said something at Unleash this past year that has stuck with me. "A man that will not work is lazy, but a man that will not rest is disobedient. " We are commanded by God to honor the Sabbath, to rest. To remind us that He is the one that makes the world go around, not us. I believe that He wires us to struggle if we do not pull back and refuel our lives.

You can try as hard as you to deal with the funk that comes up and affects parts of your life but you will never really deal with it until you deal with the root. The real cause of it. That thing that you have not let go of. The issue that you can not seem to shake. The bitterness that has taken hold of your life and it slowly eating away at your soul. If you are going to really fight the funk then those are things you have to deal with. If you are only trying to deal with what you see on the surface then the roots are spreading and it will begin to show up in all areas of your life.

Dealing with root issues can be messy. You can not be afraid to get your hands dirty. You will have to dig deep. Deep inside your heart to the area where you do not let anyone else in. You will not like what you find, that is why you have kept in buried there. I guarantee you that if you deal with the roots that you find, the funk will be taken care of.

Over the last week or so I have felt myself slip into a little funk. My attitude has been off a little bit. Not really sure what has brought it on But I do know that there are a couple of things that I can do to help myself get out of it. This week I want to share just some thought on how to fight the funk that can come in a attack out attitudes, outlooks, and perspectives.

Most of the time when I feel a funk coming on, I can do an inventory of the heart and find some selfishness buried under some things. I begin to develop my own agenda and when it is not completed I get upset and hurt. I would dare to say that 9 times out of 10 a bad attitude can be traced to selfishness. I did not get what I want so my life is miserable and therefor I am going to make everyone that is around me miserable as well.

We have to consistently fight to keep the thought that life is not about me in the fore fronts of our mind and spirit. The best way to fight selfishness is to do something for someone else. The greatest way to fight a bad attitude is serve. One of the best ways that I know of to fight a funk that creeps into your life is not make sure that your life is not your own and not about you.