Is it worth the struggle?

A highly discussed topic at my church recently has been the sermons. And not for good reasons. Our pastor seems like he's "losing his mind" and getting too old er whatever. His sermons aren't good. He stutters and mumbles and talks in circles. No one really comes out and says it, but they're pretty dang bad. People have stopped coming because they aren't getting anything out of it, and I agree. I don't see why I should get out of bed at 7 to go to a church service I'm not gonna learn anything from, other than town gossip. And trust me, I'm not one of those people who goes to church and pretends to participate and zones out during the sermon. I really actually enjoy listening to the sermons and whatnot, so when they started to go downhill, I just made more of an effort. I would even write down the one or two points he was trying to make, but it didn't add up. Needless to say, I was pretty disappointed.
However, this morning was different. The sermon had a good title, as it usually does, but this one caught my attention. It was called "worth the struggle". While he did some of his usual things, like making the same point five hundred times and forgetting what he was saying, it was decent. I could follow if I tried pretty hard. He repeated something about how all of us there were "the faithful" because we came every Sunday and everything. He also repeated an analogy about how easy it was to walk through those doors on Sunday morning and how hard it was to walk out "walking the talk, walking the walk". I'd never really thought about that before and it was a great thing to consider. I sat there for the rest of the service and the ride home and the rest of today really, thinking about that.
What I got out of it was that its extremely easy to be "faithful". I mean, it requires some amount of effort, getting out of bed isn't always easy, but its not that big of deal. And I think most people do it because they want to claim to be Christians. They want the title and the reputation that comes along with it. They want to think that they're going to Heaven someday, which they might, but I doubt its just because they come to church once a week and be "godly". Because, when they walk out those double doors an hour or so later, what are they thinking about?
Likely its not God. Likely its the plans for the day, making a grocery list in their heads, etc, which is perfectly normal, I'm not saying thats bad. Its just human nature. But what I think he was struggling to say though was that its easy to walk into church once a week and participate in church activities, but in the long run what does that really mean? We go out into the world every week after church and lead our lives. But where does God fit into our lives? How many times a week do you do something "Godly"? How much of a factor is He in your decision making? Where exactly is God in our lives? Some people may argue that they are too busy to think about God. Or that he's never present in their daily lives.
But heres the thing, God is EVERYWHERE. You can feel his love everywhere, all the time. He's the feeling you get when you look lovingly into your significant others eyes. He's the hug between a father and son. He's the cute little thing your dog did this morning. He's the "on-top-of-the-world" feeling you get when things are going great. He's all the blessings we have, the people and things in our lives we like the best. And most importantly, he's each of us. He's the thing we're good at, and we're all good at something, whether we admit or not. He gave us each a special talent, and by not doing it and using it for good, we're being ungrateful. And when we aren't "walking the talk, walking the walk" we are letting him down and letting our lives go to waste. I strongly believe he has a plan for all of us and we just need to go with it and let him take over. Because when you really sit down and think about it, optimistically and without judgment or anger anyway, we can really see all the good things he does for us, and what great things we can and should be eternally grateful for.