Going through the motions

I keep hearing a Matthew West song on the radio as I'm driving to and from work, and the lyrics to the song, combined with several key ideas from recent sermons our pastor has been preaching, have caused me to stop and think throughout the day, especially since the song is one of those songs that will tend to stick in your head for a few days at a time... =)

The song is called "The Motions", and the chorus goes like this:

I don't wanna go through the motions
I don't wanna go one more day
Without Your all-consuming passion inside of me
I don't wanna spend my whole life asking
"What if I had given everything,
Instead of going through the motions?"

As I ponder my Christian walk, I am reminded of how incredibly easy it is to fall into just "going through the motions" every day, especially when life is busy and I feel like I'm just spinning from one day to the next. Even things that should be routine--reading the Word, spending time in prayer--can become just "motions" if I fail to think about what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. What is the primary motivation of my heart? Am I doing these things for myself? For appearances? For someone else? Just so that I can say that I'm doing them? Where are my affections? Do I find myself reveling in and truly loving the Word when I pick it up? Or am I just "going through the motions" without really thinking about the awesome reality of what it is that I'm holding in my hands? Do my prayers become quick and clipped, a laundry list of requests with little time spent simply praising God and thanking Him for who He is and what He has done?

How often do I truly live as a child of God, and how often do I just go through the motions?

It's not an easy question, but it's one that certainly needs pondering.