Getting it Right

The most important thing about who we are and what we do, is our relationship with God. During my devo this morning made me to realize that He cannot work if we have any self-sufficiency left in us...It sucks to say many times, but as Christians we are "not for our own cause at all, we are out for the cause of God, which can never be our cause." It almost sounds depressing if you really think about it.

Our world seems to be filled with people promoting a lifestyle that distorts the true intention of God's plan. It's funny, because we read about these things (promiscuity, gossip, idolatry, etc.) in the Bible and say to ourselves, "oh....that's bad..." and move on. When we're actually faced with situations and real people going through this, we wonder if we're being overly critical and/or judgemental and we rationalize to allow ourselves to "fit in to this world." We all know in our heads (even non-christians) that sex before marriage is wrong. But when we're faced with people who talk casually about it, we think to ourselves, "it must not be so wrong, if people all around me are so casual about it." Even people with the most upright conscience can rationalize to make themselves believe that how the world functions is how we should also.