Caught Life Church’s sermon tonight about “5 Easy Steps to Wreck Your Life.” This week is about “How to Drift From God.”
The steps:
- Neglect your time with God.
- If you don’t like your circumstances, blame God.
- Hang around bad influences.
- Give into temptation.
- Love this world more than you love God.
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
1 – I’m REALLY bad about consistent time with God. Or…just…really…any time. I don’t mean to, but…I mostly just forget.
2 – I still do blame God for some of the crap in my life…mostly because I wouldn’t have taken those steps had I not been following Him at the time. However, I’m not bitter about it as I once was…because I wouldn’t have many of the great friendships I have here now had I never moved here. And I no longer regret following Him here.
3 – Bad influences…wow. I’m trying to work on that…I’m surrounded though almost entirely by bad influences. I’m trying diligently to build up good relationships and influences…but that’s slow. And unfortunately, while there are quite a few more of the good influences…they are still very superficial relationships for the most part. Admittedly some of the superficiality is on me and my slowness to open myself up to people.
4 – Hmm. Temptation. I’m weird with that…in that I decide very quickly whether I will or will not do something..the “temptation” phase of thought entering head -> decision is extremely short.
5 – I don’t know that I can honestly know the answer to this myself. I hope I love God more, but I do know that my life does not show that really. I’m not sure many people can answer that honestly.
