The God Switch?

After discussing my last blog with a group of men a theme began to develop. This theme was the recognition of something the guys called a "God switch". This is a switch that guys turn off and on when it suits them. This is how they push through and indulge in sin, otherwise, they could not bring themselves to do it. I knew what they meant. I have turned off my so called God switch in some dark periods of my life. My charge for them, and it remains for me, is to live in such a way that I have no switch to be turned on or off. You see I am a new creature in Christ, my life is hidden in Him, and my identity shall forever be dependent upon Him. I want to live out of a true heart of love. I am not playing games. Turning a switch off and on is just a delirious self deception. God ask us, "Am I not everywhere in all the heavens and the earth?" (Jer. 23:24) We may ignore God but He is never absent regardless of what we choose to do. We will always pay the consequences of living like there is no God, and in those moments where we choose to have nothing to do with God we invite sin and death to have its way in us. Now, I may have got to the point of maturity in my relationship with God where I do not turn God off and go do something really stupid and blatantly sin, but sometimes I push God away when I am home and tired or interested more in the television than finding some quiet time before my Lord. My God, help us all who call ourselves Christians to never turn or tune you out! Help me to know your heart for me so I will never want to choose anything other!!