How do we fix the fixable?

This a question that many have asked / do ask/ will continue to ask until God gets tired of this earth. I find myself knowing the answers to fixable questions because I am going through them and have realized what it is needs to be fixed, how to fix it, and how to prevent it from happening again.

Apathy/Complacency.

Words we are all too familiar with, unfortunately. Nobody likes to hear these words. Even if you don’t know the meaning, they just don’t feel right and have a negative sound that comes along with them. I hate these words.

What I’m going to write may be a partial recap to what was discussed in college tonight.

We were talking about disunity and how it isn’t good (obviously). What causes disunity and how can we fix/prevent it?

Trudy said disagreements. Elizabeth talked about gossip which led to flat out sin.

I said what I’m familiar with and that is apathy/complacency. This seemed to be the one we wanted to talk most about.

It was concluded that apathy is not a good thing. Should we be concerned on what causes this? YES. Every cause has an effect. If it is a possitive effect, then repeat the cause. If negative, remove it. So now, what causes apathy?

Many things. Not feeling important or having no goal. If you feel as though you are useless, you can become  apathetic. How do we fix this? Create goals for yourself and more importantly with others. This builds unity and you’re always going to continue with something.

Mr. Walker said that he (along with everyone) gets tired and worn out and that this is a big contributor to becoming complacent. This is the one I want to go with. I wanted to add some stuff to this in the discussion but time didn’t permit. People sometimes get so involved and bogged down with things that after a while they just get tired and can’t go on anymore. This is human nature. We live in flesh and the flesh is weak so we need rest. REST. It is important to rest properly. By this, we must find rest is God. This looks different from person to person. True rest. Practice the Sabbath. Seriously. Russell talked about most of this, but I just want to reiterated what he said. I think it is crucial. I’ve been victim to this so many times and for so many times I rested wrong or didn’t at all. I thought that by doing more, it would bring me out of my state of apathy. The scary thing is, it flung me deeper into it and often times led to depression. Seriously.

How do we fix the fixable? Give it to someone who can fix it and allow them to do it. I think we all know who that is.