god of many forms

What do you live for?

what is the most important thing in your life
what drives you
what excites you
what is your reward
what motivates you
what do you enjoy the most
what would cause you great pain if taken away
what is your god

I see so many people obsessed with things that in the end, are absolutely meaningless. These things become their life. For me for a while it was people, people who probably didn't care that much for me. And then it became facebook. Believe it or not, i basically lived for facebook. I enjoyed it the most, i spent the most time with it, facebook would be my reward. Basically at those times, Those people and facbook became my gods. For my Dad, his god is drugs. He lives for drugs, he spends time with drugs, enjoys drugs. Flop, he can't survive with out drugs. And even when given the opportunity to survive without drugs, he CHOOSES drugs. Nothing comes before drugs. nothing. But he is a christian, just as i am. A struggling christian, just as i am and many others are trying desperately to put god first, but more often than not... failing.

Maybe our gods aren't as full on as drugs, but more of a choice. a subtle choice, a subtle ssin that grows into an obsession.

Romans 14:23 "everything that does not come from faith is sin."

so does that mean that every time we log onto facebook we are sinning? every time we choose to sit with our friends for another lazy lunchtime sinful? Every time we open our big gobs and talk about useless junk sinning?

and slowly, slowly, those sins take hold of us and they become our gods.

the door opens just a tiny crack......

so what if we lived for God?

what if God was the most important thing in our lives
what if God drove our life
what if God excited us
what if God was our reward
what if God motivated us
what if we actually enjoyed God
what if we couldn't bear to lose God
what if we actually treated God like a god

hmph. I've been thinking about this stuff a lot lately. what would it take to actually put God first?? I've ried, many many many many times, and failed failed failed failed failed.

failed failed failed.

but wouldn't it be awesome to see what it would look like if people genuinely acted out on this principle? WOuldn't it be amazing to see the faith that comes from treating God like a god and untimately the almost perfect behaviour!
I know right, sounds crazy... but it hink it is possible to be sinless, with pure faith. It talks about it in the bible all the time, but like so many other things, we disregard it and label it as irrelevant and not in conext. Pfft. Take the bible seriously for a change.

eg. If Jesus says he can do anything through prayer... why don't we believe that?
If the bible says we can do all sorts of awesome stuff through the Holy Spirit, why don't we use that?

and whatever happened to miracles?!?!
It's entirely possible, but people have just diluted their faith. Watered down the bible.

If we actually 100% trusted the bible with our lives, if we read it like we have never gone to sunday school or heard about God in our lives... how much would our prayers change??

Nowadays Christians are so wimpy (with some exceptions). Christians are accepted, and given so many opportunitys but absolutely nothing is done about it. For a while i thought that i needed to fit in in order to be a good christian and not judge people. Oh my goodness. I just hate the complacent, lazy culture. I hate all the undercover Christians. (well, i don't hate the actual people)

ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Something is missing in Christians, and i think that it is God.