A common problem with our culture...?

Well I have 4 full days before I head back to Southern MO. It is kind of making me sad lately because I will miss my family and I will miss the ability to do nothing if I so chose (and I "so choose" almost all the time). However, I am looking forward to seeing my great friends that I have known for years... my friends I made this year... and maybe getting to see more of people that I have not seen a lot of for a long time. I plan to take more trips to Springfield to see my friends at MSU and maybe other friends. Who knows.

I wont be writing on here every day... especially once school starts... but I dont have much else to do at the moment. So hopefully this will pass some time while I procrastinate on cleaning up and packing stuff.

Today has been one of my most lazy days yet. I got up around 9 and got on facebook... fell back asleep and slept until noon... got up and got on facebook (up loaded pics and such)... ate breakfast/lunch (a very good salad and tuna sandwich)... took a long hot shower... played guitar... now i'm back online. How sad is that? I'll go ahead and answer that... "VERY SAD".

OHH... I thought of a topic to write about.

So I was listening to this speaker at school and he said something that I thought was amazing. It was so obvious but I had never really connected the dots in this way. He said that (and this sounds weird at first, so stick with me).... "Our culture is having a pornographic relationship with Christ". Yeah, I know that sounds weird... I was rather confused when he said this because I completely didnt understand where he was going with this. But here is where I thought it got really good. He continued to say that...

our culture is so used to going to podcasts, self help books , worship sessions, daily journals, and church (etc.) that we forgot about having an actual intimacy with God himself. We neglect the bible and prayer time because it seems either (1) too hard or (2) too time consuming.. or maybe it has just been too long since we have tried to have a relationship with God that we forgot how to! We determine our "closeness" with God through other sources and we forget about the fact that direct communication is essential.

Now remember all of this and let's go on a short rabbit trail. Adam and Eve were in the garden... Satan tempted Eve to eat the Fruit.... Why didn't Satan tempt Adam? Well there are no direct answers for that but what I have heard mentioned many times is that God gave Adam a direct command to not eat of the fruit. Adam then passed this command from God to Eve. Maybe Satan tempted Eve because the doubt that he could form in her mind about what God really said about eating the fruit would be easiest to form than in Adam's mind (because she did not actually witness God's direct command)...

So back to this whole "pornographic relationship" thing... When we, as Christians, are not getting fed directly from God (via the Bible and prayer), then we are opening ourselves up to be tempted even easier by Satan. We are opening ourselves up and allowing Satan to place small questions about what we believe in our mind... causing us to doubt what we even believe in the first place... because in the end.. when we look at the question we have... we don't know the answers! All we know is what someone said once in a book... or at a church service... or on a podcast... etc, etc, etc. Not what GOD said about an issue.

We've slipped into this complacency... Where we think that "you do what you do and I do what I do".... It's not really a sin if I FEEL like it's not a sin.
uhhhh... How many times do sinful things FEEL like a sin? (You may KNOW it's a sin but it doenst always FEEL bad like a sin)... So, Maybe instead of relying on our "feelings" to make decisions we should rely on God's word...
So lets get with it (myself included).
Sound good?