Drifting

We're all caught up in the tides of life, and we constantly need to fight the current that tends to carry us away. Before we know it, we're drifting farther and farther from the heart of God.  Pastor Curt brought it big time on Sunday with an awesome call to take action and do something to combat atrophy within our lives. 

It's amazing how interconnected the health of our spiritual life is to the health of our soul and our physical body.  Accepting Christ's life changing gift is only the beginning.  He renews our spirit and makes us brand new in Him, but there's a constant battle.  A constant struggle.  Our emotions and human desires are at war with the desires of God.  The more we focus on developing and strengthening our walk with Christ, the more it will positively overflow into the rest of our life.  But on the other hand, if we become apathetic about building up our spiritual life, it will undoubtedly negatively affect every other area of our life.

Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap.

We all have issues.  We're all messed up.  We all need help.  None of us have it all together.  We try to separate our daily life from our spiritual life.  And yet, we fail to realize that it's that spiritual piece that's the only thing that can create real change...change for our good.  When we allow Christ to speak into our lives and apply His words to our lives, we WILL grow, and He WILL change our lives for the better.  It takes effort to fight against the currents of life.  It takes focused attention to not drift away.  But it's so worth the struggle!

• Make a decision to live and decide to initiate change.  Take that first step toward life and do what you need to be doing one step at a time.  Just do the next right thing and don't worry or try to control the outcome. 
• Renew your vision for life.  It's a process that starts with knowing your goal.  I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
• Expose the enemies of life.  Figure out what's in your life that's in your way of reaching your goal.  Throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.
• Protect life with accountability.  Without accountability there is no motivation for change. 
• Live for God.  If you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.