Keeping Routine out of the Relationship

"But I warn you-unless you obey God better than the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees do, you can't enter the Kingdom of Heaven at all!" Matthew 5:20

How do you keep from getting in a ritual or routine in your personal relationship with Christ?

If you have ever got stuck in one you will agree that complacency kicks in really quick, and brethren complancency is a bad thing.

The Pharisees and Religious leaders were a prime example of routine and ritual's when it came to their faith.

So much so they missed having a loving relationship with the One who came to save them.

I don't want to miss Jesus because I am stuck in a routine or a to do check list. I want my relationship with Christ to be alive and flourishing, not dead and complcent.

If I am not careful I can get there really quick and in doing so I walk away feeling empty.

Jesus wants a relationship with me that is fun, joyful, enjoying, interesting, full of love, excitment, and laughter. He also wants a relationship that is real and genuine and not a "Have to" but a "Want to"

How do you keep from getting in a routine or a ritual in your relationship with Christ?

Jesus may I take notice of Your warning given in Matthew 5:20. Show me all the areas that I have allowed routine or ritual to become habit thus dampering our relationship. Jesus it is Your love for me that leaves me desring more of You. Fuel the fire of our love within me. That is may burn bigger and brighter. I pray the fire never becomes dull or dim. Amen