Baby Steps

Whenever you get serious about an endeavor, your first few lessons are very basic. I mean, very, very basic. They are so basic because, as any good teacher will tell you, most students have to unlearn bad habits they've picked up on their own before they can begin to learn to do something the right way. If you take golf lessons, the first lesson will be on stance and balance. Sometimes, the student won't hit a ball until the second or third lesson. Bad habits are hard to unlearn. Want to learn to cook? You'll spend hours learning about different pots and pans and how they handle heat. It will be a while before you cook anything.

Christianity is the same way. When most of us decide to follow Christ, we declare we'll give our life to Jesus. He rarely asks for that. Most of the time the next step is small and simple. So small and simple we don't think it's worth doing at all. The tasks will be as simple as sitting with a friend who's going through a hard time; or perhaps you'll be asked to befriend someone who is lonely -- none of these seem to be world-changing endeavors. They are just simple acts of love desired by our Savior.

Because they're simple, we don't do them. We assume these simple acts won't make any difference so we don't do them. And because we don't do the simple things Christ asks of us, we never do anything at all.... Read More

This is a lesson we all need to learn.