Easy

I was watching a segment on TV this morning about sports/athletic shoes and all the claims that are made. Depending on the particular shoe they will: help you loose weight, tighten and shape your buns, strengthen and tone your legs, look like one of the models (implied) and a host of other benefits. All you have to do is buy their shoe, at a premium price of coarse, and your life is instantly better.
That's the heart of the matter. We want it quick, now, instantly and it has to be easy. No effort on our part, no strain or willingness to work at what really works. We want a pill or shoe, a band or bracelet and let the magic begin.
It started me thinking about our relationship with God. As we look back through the history of the bible, it's very clear that God wants a relationship with us, an exclusive one where He is the object of our affection (Mt. 12:30) and when we consider what God has done for us (Rm. 5:8) we should strive to please Him in every way. But for some reason:__________________, fill in the blank with your own reason, our affection seems to find another object or we think that God is available to do whatever we want Him to do and we are likely to get upset when He doesn't come through.
Our goal should be to worship God and live righteously, knowing that there is a cost associated with living a life that is pleasing to God, (2Tim. 3:12) there are no short cuts, no easy button, no yellow brick road. This is the way in which the bible describes the road on which we travel:
(Matthew 7:13-14) "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. "Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. 
We don't like narrow and difficult, but would rather have wide and easy.

Below is part of daily devotion I get from David Jeremiah entitled: The Nourished Soul.

The Nourished Soul

...nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.
1 Timothy 4:6b

Recommended Reading 1 Timothy 4:6-11

In his 1729 Christian classic, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, William Law gave us the secret to a spiritual and productive life. "Nourish (your soul) with good works," he wrote, "make it wise with reading, enlighten it by meditation, make it tender with love, sweeten it with humility, humble it with penance, enliven it with Psalms and Hymns, and comfort it with frequent reflections on future glory."¹

The normal Christian life is one of constant and continual revival. While longing for a global revival to sweep the earth or a local revival to touch our church, we can personally nourish our soul every day. We can grow wise by the reading of God's Word, become enlightened by meditating on memorized Scripture, learn to treat others with the tenderness of agape love, and display the sweet traits of humility and confession. We can bolster our spirits with hymns and songs, and we can comfort and strengthen our hearts by reflecting on heaven and on things above.

For renewal to take place, we have only to study God's blessed Word and let it do its work in our lives.