In church today my Pastor (Brad Bryant) asked a great question and used a great analogy. He asked "has there ever been a time in your life when you were closer to God than you are right now"? So I ask you the same question, has there ever been a time in YOUR life when you have been closer to God than you are right now? If there has been then you have drifted.
The analogy that Brad used was drifting at the beach. Have you ever been playing in the ocean and just get caught up in either having fun or just watching your kids that you didn't realize it but before you know it your beach umbrella is about 1/2 mile up the beach? The ocean's current is a slow pull and as long as you aren't trying to go against it, you don't even notice that it is pulling you away from home. That's the way life is. As long as we just go along with it, we don't notice that it is pulling us away from home, away from our first love. But just like trying to swim against the current, it is hard to go against the flow to get back to God.
Drifting from God happens so easily when you aren't carefull. It's so easy to get caught up in our day to day life and lose sight of what's really important, our relationship with God. For some it's our kids while for others it may be a job. For some it could be your marriage. The best way to get back to your beach umbrella is to get out of the ocean and walk back. The same holds true with God. The best way to get back to Him is to get out of the life that is pulling you from Him, get away from what has pulled you down the beach.
I don't know about you but being married is fun for Kim and me. We have a great relationship and love each other completely. We enjoy each others company so much that, before this year, we had put too much focus on each other and not enough focus on God.
It was this time last year when God called us out on it. He showed us if we put our focus on Him and work on our individual relationships with God then our marriage would be stronger and our relationship with each other would be better. He was so right. We have put God first in our lives and now we are so close to God and each other. Thats how we got out of the ocean to get back to our umbrella, we made a change in our marriage to put God first and spouse second.
When I asked if there was a time in your life that you were closer to God than you are today, how did you answer? Is your relationship with God important enough to you to get out of the ocean and get back to the umbrella, back to Him? I hope so.
God loves you and I do too!
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