Time for
Recalibration
DAVID WESTRA
I was reminded , recently , of the importance that an accurate compass reading can make . A ship sailing from Los Angeles , California to Sydney , Australia whose compass is off by only one degree , will only be off by a matter of 90 some feet after a mile of travel . Hardly noticeable . Yet by the end of its voyage that same ship will miss its destination by over 130 miles . It won ’ t end up remotely close to its destination , and its journey will be a failure . Clearly , re-calibrating for where we are aiming is of critical importance .
If we didn ’ t naturally drift from our ideals and aspirations , there would be no need for new year ’ s resolutions or any other kind of re-commitments we might desire to make . But the sad yet simple truth is that we ’ ve all had experiences of waking up one day and realizing that , in some way , shape , or form , our growth in Yeshua ( Jesus ) has stagnated .
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Perhaps our prayer life has waned ; it feels dry . We aren ’ t as generous as we once were . What we are choosing to do with our “ free time ” seems more consistent with self-gratification than service to God . We have diminishing passion for worship , little concern for reconciling others to God , and more hunger for physical food than for the riches of God ’ s holy and eternal Word . What is true for ships and for individual believers in Messiah is just as true for entire worshiping communities and congregations . We see this in each of Paul ’ s letters , but perhaps nowhere more clearly than when he writes to the Galatians ,