1 Corinthians 10:7 - (7) Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

After the Lord had delivered Israel from Egypt, they quickly got bored and turned away from Him to worship a golden calf. Many Christians do this today when they get bored of the Christian life because they figure deliverance (forgiveness of sins) is all that the Christian life consists of.

Let’s say a man is newly born again. He has recently repented and struggled bitterly to successfully overcome his old habits that he used to be entangled in: drunkenness, lust and the like. He is immensely encouraged because of this triumph. But now he finds himself with no struggle: very little to pray about, and little reason to study scripture. Previously his toilsome fight with sin kept him working, praying, studying, and striving. But he has overcome the big sins… now what is left? This was exactly Israel’s attitude. “We have been delivered from Egypt! … But… now what?”
So what happens? The boredom leads to stagnation and sluggishness, which slowly leads into a progression back to where they started! Israel was like a bicyclist that ran out of breath on the way up a hill and then started drifting backwards. Instead of fighting hard to press on up the hill, they found themselves taking the easy comfortable road back down the hill… and even looking forward to going back into Egypt.

Boredom is the most understated trial of a believer’s life. If Satan can’t cause you to fall back, he’ll at least attempt to keep you from going forward.

A Christian life where there is little struggle with sin (because much has been overcome), but also little growth in grace is not what the Lord meant for. The old man has to be put off, and then the new man must be put on. If you only put off the old man without putting on the new, what good will that do you?  A car painter doesn’t scrape off all the old paint only to the let the car rust. He puts new paint on. You don’t take off your old dirty clothes only to run around naked. No… you put on your new clean clothes. When you were baptized, you did not sink down into the water, never to come up again… that would be tragic. You went down dirty and rose up out of the water again clean. God doesn’t deliver you from wickedness simply to put off wickedness. He saves to put on Christ (Rom 13:14).

When we hit those points of boredom in our walk, we must slowly press on forward.

Hebrews 6:10-12 "(10) For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.  (11) And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end,  (12) so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises."

We must be diligent, and patient - putting our hope in the Lord and looking forward to obtaining His promises.

Philippians 3:12-15 "(12) Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.  (13) Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,  (14) I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.  (15) Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you;"

We must not think that we have already "met the standard" of what it meanst to be a Christian.  We must press on to lay hold of Christ, and press onto perfection.