A Word in Time // Defining Moments, Part 4

<p>It’s easy to drift along, day after day – not ever realising that we’re on a gentle, downward slope, until it’s too late. But the beauty of God’s grace is that it’s never, ever too late to change things. It’s never, ever too late to turn your life around.</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>Same Old Same Old</strong></span></h3> <p>The thing about life is that it, well, it seems to just crank along, day after day – get up, have a shower, have breakfast, hit the commute, go to work, come home, do the TV, go to bed, get up ... isn’t that the routine? Ninety nine point nine percent of life seems to be everyday, mundane realities – punctuated, granted, with the odd high and low. And the more we live that same old same old, the more we become accustomed to that reality; we get used to it.</p> <p>For many people there is a dull ache in their hearts; for others there is this sense that, there has to be something more. You know I work in God’s service, in full time ministry and every Sunday evening I talk with my mother on the phone – it’s our little routine – and she asks me "Berni, what’s been going on in your life?" And I’m your typical male, I say “Well, Mum, you know it was kind of the same as last week; nothing particularly new – same old same old." And it’s true!</p> <p>The problem is for so many, many people, this same old same old routine is about drifting away from God. It’s about living out a busy life and just struggling to get by and consuming mountains of drivel from the TV that ... well, we forget what life is all about. And before we know it, God seems like ... well, it seems like He is just a million miles away. Have you ever felt that in your life? You know, you can even be on holidays, having a great vacation somewhere, with time on your hands and yet, it still feels like God is a million miles away. There’s a reason for that – there is!</p> <p>And today on the programme we are going to discover the reason and the remedy. This is the last in a series of four messages that I have c