Stuck?

Do you ever feel stuck? I've been feeling stuck recently in a place that probably seems pretty ridiculous to be stuck in. 'I want to love the Lord and serve Him with my whole life.'

Isn't that where we are supposed to be stuck and never want to get out? I guess that's not exactly what I mean then. I was convicted today as I was thinking about this. If my goal is really what I said above, but something seems to be hindering me from that...then I have something else that is conflicting with that goal. In the case I'm talking about, I think it has been a desire in some way to please man above my Father. Paul says in Galatians, after laying into them about false preachers, "For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ." Paul says in Corinthians, "To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law." But Paul was not saying compromise your allegiance and service to Christ for anything. Christ comes first. Loving God comes first.

I think we get in trouble, or at least I have, when we cloud THE goal with fears of somehow hindering our secondary goals and desires, even if that is seeing the lost accept Christ. I've let these fears, of losing the secondaries get in the way of doing the primary, through which everything else is born from.