What do to?

Busy, busy... Long day of school, baseball, working out, and homework and I am just about to go to bed. I am going to spend a few minutes with God after I am done with this and then I will be getting my rest to prepare for another long day tomorrow. I must say though, I am blessed that God has provided me with all that he has and I know that I would not be bale to get through some of my days without him. Sure I might not always be where I should be at with him but I know that he still cares about me and I need to do my best to show my love for him. I sometimes just sit around and say, "If I could just eliminate this one thing from my life, I would have no problem serving God to the fullest and I would just be such a good Christian." I find myself in this situation a lot but for some reason I will not change that one thing. Call it apathy, selfishness, whatever... but for some reason I am just content with letting that one thing pull me down constantly. Now I know that there is never just one thing that people struggle with but let us just say that this is a "main" problem in my life. The things that could get categorized as lesser problems seem to be just that, lesser problems, until we have to deal with them and then they get pushed to the forefront. Some of these might include jealousy, anger, honesty, obedience, etc. The truth is that these can be just as detrimental as that "main" thing, I just feel that the main thing prevents me from taking care of some of the lesser problems. Over the past few weeks, I feel like I have done a better job at taking care of the lesser problems and I have spent more time on the small stuff. I definitely have improved in some of the areas I just mentioned but now I have to tackle the "beast."

As I look to overcome this, I need to recognize the problem, and then I need to develop a plan to overcome it. If I fail at first, I need to be persistent in eliminating it because it will just continue to cause me problems. The goal is not to keep falling down when we have problems but if we do, hopefully, someday we will overcome it and realize that we have been foolish. Now I am not justifying continuing to live the way you are but some people just take time to mature in their faith because they are not ready to take that step for whatever reason. I encourage you to find out what is holding you back and determine if it can be changed as soon as possible! Titus 3:3-8 says, "At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived, and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God out savior appeared, he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy, He saved is through the washing of the rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. This is a trustworthy saying. And I want you to stress these things so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good. These things are excellent and profitable for everyone." I will leave you with that verse so that you can meditate on it and pray about it. I think God is speaking to us who are in a comatose state spiritually and we need to snap out of it.

I hope you are all doing well, please feel free to contact me and discuss issues with me or just post a comment and let me know how you are doing. I will continue to pray for God to speak to those of you who read and for his blessings to be upon you.

God Bless,

Joseph Robinson