The Blur.....

Sometimes, understanding a principle is easier understood by looking at what can constrain that principle in practice.

That said, I wanted to throw out a quick note as to what can turn a path towards being a true worshiper into an uphill climb without the yodel.

Jeremiah, Chapter 2 goes into somewhat of a bleak sounding proposition for the Isrealites. You can hear a jealous God asking the questions, "Why have you drifted so far?" He then provides an answer with His following rebuke. He let's them know that they drifted from HIM to themselves.

They stopped asking, "Where is our God?" God is mournfully asking, "Why in this world have your hearts lost their love affair with me in exchange for meanless and temporary things?"

God, through Jeremiah, speaks of different non-existent God's they were serving, but if you get to the raw bones of this thing, those "God's" were man-made creations that they came up with to nurture their NEED for something tangible. They just could not get away from the physical.

Does that sound familiar? Whether it be drugs, alcohol abuse, sex, sports, TV, music, or religion, we have have all sorts of man-made institutions to keep us busy and "fulfilled".

So, why is this important? How many of us spend all our time, focus, and attention on everything else except God, and then want to turn (only on Sunday mornings) and "get focused" on Him? How many of us get so frustrated at this Christian walk and wonder why we never feel an intimate relationship with God only to look back at the amount of time we spend seeking Him to find nothing.....we focus our attention on everything, but God.

If you feel desolate in your relationship with God, ask yourself how much you are putting into the relationship. Consider a relationship with the other sex....do you really think that your wife is going to respond with kisses after you spent a day ignoring her? Not quite, and neither then should we expect to have a BFF type of relationship with a God that won't even give a minute of our day.

In Jeremiah, after all, this penalty for neglecting God was quite severe...

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