keeping perspective

I'm amazed at how I can talk about God in such an offhand kind of way. And then find myself in church mouthing words to a great song yet my mind isn't engaged. And then i'm chatting away using words like 'hell' without consciously acknowledging the reality for people i love or even myself.
And this indifference is displayed time and time again in me whether consciously or subversively. The biggest challenge for me at the moment is to take the knowledge I have in my head, and truly feel it with my heart. In other words I need to take Jesus' message and let it transform my life.
This, i think, actually isn't that difficult. It's just i'm usually in so much of a rush to pocket a good answer to my question that I forget to actually apply it, or let it properly affect me. I feel like I need to exercise my emotional comprehension - it's the spiritual war - though a more tactful one than a rage: apathy vs empathy, indifference vs compassion, ignorance vs acknowledgement. There is a choice for me in my every response to any situation. And there is a good and holy spirit within me, prompting me to do good.
It's interesting because the word for mind 마음 (Ma-eum) in korean is also used to mean heart. I like the idea that a 'renewed mind' would involve my heart somehow.
I want what I know about Jesus and my maker to change me, and I want my actions to reflect what I feel and believe about Him.
It all seems to come back to that brilliant verse: 'seek first the kingdom of God'. Good perspective, it seems, changes everything.
So I'm all up for ideas on how to go about 'seeking'.

looking to God and then acknowledging my need for change, and a want for it, is probably a good place to start. Effort and practice, too, definitely have a part to play. and both spontaneity and routine are useful - though i'm not sure which one is more beneficial because sometimes routines such as reading the bible at a set time or making a place or time for prayer can be quite freeing when i need starting place, which is something spontaneous payer or worship often makes difficult. people too, they help give me perspective. Meditation? I definitely don't do enough of that.

A final quote, and important lesson is: 'to be continuously fascinated by God'