"Living For God in a Busy Life"

I learned today that sometimes we are too busy that we skipped spending time with God. Poor God... so neglected :(

Just like my post in November, titled "Tyranny of the Urgent", we often respond to the urgent and not the important. And what is urgent may not even be important, for example homework over God. Sure, education is important, but we should always try to make time for our Lord. Besides, when we trust in the Lord and let Him take control, we can do amazing things. Duh... It's GOD we're talking about here :)

In an activity book that I have for growing spiritually strong, it says "Left to ourselves, we fail to distinguish God's way from the world's, or we see the difference but give in to the world anyway. We may have an uneasy feeling but rationlise our actions by saying, "After all, who knows what is right these days. Are there really any absolutes?" We may not realise that we are drifting along in the stream of this world's ideas of living, obeying its unseen ruler, and following our own impulses and imaginations much as we did before turned to Christ.

In the book "When God writes Your Life Story", there were 2 types of Christian lives that struck me. There is the just-be-real Christianity and the God-loves-me-anyway Christianity. Let's start with the just-be-real Christianity.

An example in the book is a Bible school student who has decided to "be real" about his lustful addictions. He blurts "I'm hooked on pornography, and that's just the way it is. God knows I'm only human, and I'm not gonna beat myself up about it."

Now for the God-loves-me-anyway Christianity, this attitude shies away from the sting of conviction. An example in the book is a couple, Kelly and Damon, who committed to save sex until marriage. But one day they gave in to temptation, and she cried with remorse after that, knowing that she had let God down. The next night during a sermon, the pastor declared, "He loves us just the way we are in all our sin and weaknesses. God doesn't expect us to be perfect. He knows we are stuck in the mire of our sinfulness." That was when Kelly's guilt floated away, and the couple maintained an ongoing sexual relationship. She convinced herself that God accepts her in spite of her mistakes and that He doesn't expect her to change.

Sure He accepts us in spite of our mistakes, but that DOESN'T mean that He doesn't expect us to change. Though we are born sinners since the time of Adam and Eve, we should try to live a righteous life because in Romans 8:7, "the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so."