Atrophy is the state of wasting away due to lack of use. Deterioration, fail. In the body it's about organs and muscles. A system failure causes activity to slow and eventually halt. The muscles and organs are no longer used and thus break-down, failing to serve their purpose.

Bananas are like this. I don't really like bananas to begin with, feel like they try to clog up my esophagus. Mushy little assassins. But if I did...Iʻd like them to be sweet and white and firm. If they sit around they get brown and slimy and lure the flies of the fruit. Ultimately they fail at making their contribution to the daily serving.

Our lives likewise must be active or they break-down. Our sacred purposes deteriorate. We care but don't create. We self beautify. Self protect. Self suffice. Taking in but failing to express out.  There's a way by the person of Jesus that embodies an expression of the most royal kind, that of love. Jesus spoke and gave and related and touched and healed.

Jesus was the change he wanted to see in his world. 

Faith was never just about getting by.  It's about using yourself to express *love.  (see also *God -1 John 4:8)

What are your gifts/talents/passions? Are they being used beyond yoursef?  Are you expressing something greater to someone other?