Human Condition

Something I have been thinking about lately is how things that are good for you are difficult and the things that are bad for you are very easy, or so they seem. Let us begin with the things that are good for you. Exercise,  eating right, living for God, even learning. Now for some people in the world particular things on this list are enjoyable and in fact give them meaning. However for all us NORMAL people out there it is difficult. On the flip side bad things for you i.e. eating bad, not exercising, and living wicked lives is sooooo easy. For example you can gain weight in like a week but it will take 3 months to lose that weight. Ok maybe a slight exaggeration but you can relate. Since this is true why wouldn't God just make the easy things good and the bad things hard. Some may say that it is because he wants us to build character and doesn't want weak willed punks in his family. Duly noted and that may be the answer but it goes against everything innate in our fallen condition. This brings me to my next point of how we can be motivated and need some sort of motivation to do any action in our lives. I have talked with many of my friends and they say to figure out why I am doing the action and use that to fuel our action. But I run into the problem of figuring out why I do most things. So I determined you may not know why you do something but should and must do it for your own sake and if you are a believer God's sake as well. For me it is working out and trying (not really) to eat healthy. I hate the gym and it is on my top ten list of places that should be destroyed but I know that it is a necessary evil that I must embrace for my own good. So while those things that are bad for you are easier the price you pay in the long run GREATLY out weighs the pain or unhappiness at the onset of those good things. Life is choices and each one you make will have good or bad consequences so we all need to be conscience of that every second of every day.