Are You Fired Up Or Burned Out

The sense of boredom, futility, melancholy and tiredness that settles on the human spirit is a tragic characteristic of life in our hectic, frenzied, stressful modern world. The sad truth is that while we have done so well and have been so creative in so many dimensions of life, we have all too often missed the main thing. We have moved into outer space, but we have not really discovered and celebrated the mysteries and wonders of our own inner space. The “world weariness” that plagues us is not so much the problem as it is a symptom of a much deeper problem called emptiness. It’s the emptiness that comes from loving and craving the wrong things… temporal, material things that will never satisfy. We scrape and scramble to get them, only to discover that they don’t fill the vacuum. Then we feel cheated, short-changed, let down, bored, empty and bone weary. But, it doesn’t have to be that way! God does not want it to be that way for us. Jesus came that we might have exciting, joyful, “abundant life!” In this study, we will take a look at some ways (of course, with God’s help and God’s grace and Jesus’ life and teaching) that we can stay excited, exhilarated, fulfilled and “fired up” about life.