Fighting the things that are good for us

It’s midnight and my daughter is fighting sleep so I thought I would talk about something that I was just thinking about. Often we fight the things that are good for us. Why is that? Even from an early age like my daughter kids fight the sleep they need to be able to maneuver the day. It is crazy because I think about how many people choose not to give their life to a God who sent His only begotten son down to die for their sins. Even now many people are doing things that are a determent to their life and they know it but yet they fight what they know to be the right thing just to fit in. Even if you do not believe in the teachings of Christianity or believe that God is real or that Jesus is the Son of God who bore our sins on the cross, died and rose in victory over death, hell and the grave, we all have a moral compass, and yet in many people that compass appears broken. There is an individual in my hometown that I will not mention there name who has struggled with drug abuse and staying out of jail, who recently saw their friend die from an overdose but yet they refuse to get the help they need. Picture this, his mother with the only means of communicating with him being Facebook chat, video chatted him because she heard the news about his friend and with tears in her eyes she pleaded with him to go to rehab. Offered to take him and help with any money that he needed to go and even though she begged him to go, he refused. It is so sad to see people refuse or fight the help that they need because the wrong in their life outweighs what they would gain from a clean life. Years ago I was in a training about behavioral change. This class was specifically talking about “at-risk youth” who needed education, employment or training but who were stuck in the ruts of drug addiction and crime. The speaker said that if the outcome of change did not in their eyes outweigh the cost for change then the youth would not choose to change. I find this to be true with everyone, not just youth, people will continue to fight what they need unless they realize that the outcome of change is worth the cost of change. (I do not own the rights to this picture.)