PLAY TIME

Life does have it moments when smiles are in order. I don't feel god every made having fun once and a while a bad thing or one that deserved punishment.

But that doesn't mean it is all the time. And there are so many easy ways we can fall into a valley that we find every moment a reason to goof off.

What is amazing is how often people find some excuse to justify such behavior. Oh the reasons we can invent if we want.

I remember this one person I knew. The individual at one time was very faithful in church service. Totally committed to serving the lord.

Then there came a time when this person was left disillusioned by a pastor's sin. And slowly with drew from all churches.

Of course they had all kinds of good reasons. A need to do soul searching was a big one on the list.

Later, the person told me how much that the individual had enjoyed experiencing and God in nature on Sunday morning. Camping out on the weekends became this individuals new church.

The problem was that the individual totally abandoned serving God in any way. One doesn't have to go to church to serve god, but he will open doors for you to serve him.

You may find those hard to locate if you are too busy spending all your time doing everything to excuse just having fun. God won't even make you feel about it.

But what does happen in the process is that you slowly lose your intimacy with fellowship with the Lord. Without a need to trust him, each day just because a quest for diversion.

And along the way the person may never even appreciate the loss. They won't even feel it.

However, spiritual it will end in a loss of spiritual blessings. All the ways God expresses himself in one's life slowly will dry up and you'll just be treading water.

Only you'll be so busy having your own idea of a good time you won't even care. Only inside will you feel the loss in ways you'll not even imagine.

Such the nature of the life of faith. We live in that nature time and time again, but never feel it's death in our lives at times.

Just it the silence that comes from heaven.