said that the problem with Christians isn't that we are dissatisfied or that we are hard to satisfy, but that we are too easily satisfied. By this he meant that we settle for the things of this world, dining on table scraps as it were, instead of feasting on the divine banquet that God prepares and offers to us daily. We fill ourselves with lesser things instead of hungering after the things of God.
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I've started reading "Mere Christianity" and it really just never ceases to amaze me how enduring God's truth is. Even though he is a brother in Christ who has already gone to be with the Lord, C.S. Lewis' work could easily have been written about our generation.
I'm not going to lie. I can go from praise and worship music right back to some music that glorifies the world so long as it has a good beat. The moment the trials seem to lift, I'm right back to drifting away from God.
The thing is, nothing in the world is as satisfying as God. I know this to be true because no amount of music, shopping, food, friends, etc. gives me the peace I have when I know I'm walking in the will of God.
But even though I KNOW THIS to be true... it's like I still prefer the world.
I guess I try to forget that in us is a battle: the flesh v. the Spirit. All around us is a battle between evil and good.
A lot of times I fall because I'm lazy. Wow that sounds awful but I believe that's really what it is. I just don't feel like practicing righteousness. I just don't feel like getting over myself. I just don't feel like learning to rule my spirit so that I don't lose my temper or say something to tear somebody down.
I just don't feel like putting any effort into a relationship with God. And when I don't abide in Christ... I cease to bear fruit.
Ugh.
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