1) I spend more time in the day checking/waiting to check my email/Facebook then I spend thinking about God.
2) I am more concerned with reading Glamour and Cosmopolitan than reading my BIBLE.
3) I spend more money on ridiculous things...and have not been tithing steadily since before summer.
4) I can tell you in full detail what happened on every major TV show, but could not even tell you what I learned in church last Sunday.
A verse that has really convicted me lately:
ISAIAH 1:13-18
13 Stop bringing meaningless offerings!
Your incense is detestable to me.
New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations—
I cannot bear your evil assemblies.
14 Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts
my soul hates.
They have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even if you offer many prayers,
I will not listen.
Your hands are full of blood;
16 wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds
out of my sight!
Stop doing wrong,
17 learn to do right!
Seek justice,
encourage the oppressed.
Defend the cause of the fatherless,
plead the case of the widow.
18 "Come now, let us reason together,"
says the LORD.
"Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.
Which coincides perfectly with a song that I almost started crying to when I was listening to it the other night...of course it is by Jon Foreman:
I hate all your show and pretense
The hypocrisy of your praise
The hypocrisy of your festivals
I hate all your show
Away with your noisy worship
Away with your noisy hymns
I stomp on my ears when you're singing 'em
I hate all your show
Instead let there be a flood of justice
An endless procession of righteous living, living
Instead let there be a flood of justice
Instead of a show
Your eyes are closed when you're praying
You sing right along with the band
You shine up your shoes for services
There's blood on your hands
You turned your back on the homeless
And the ones that don't fit in your plan
Quit playing religion games
There's blood on your hands
Instead let there be a flood of justice
An endless procession of righteous living, living
Instead let there be a flood of justice
Instead of a show
I hate all your show
Let's argue this out
If your sins are blood red
Let's argue this out
You'll be one of the clouds
Let's argue this out
Quit fooling around
Give love to the ones who can't love at all
Give hope to the ones who got no hope at all
Stand up for the ones who can't stand at all, all
I hate all your show
I hate all your show
I hate all your show
I hate all your show
Instead let there be a flood of justice
An endless procession of righteous living, living
Instead let there be a flood of justice
Instead of a show
I hate all your show
Which combined are the two most convicting things I have come across in a long time. I am not going to go into detail why...but I am beginning to think that I need to some serious evaluation of what is a priority in my life...I hate that I have become someone who praises God so easily in church and when I am around church stuff...but when I am out of it, he is literally the last thing on my mind...
Things to ponder I suppose.
LF
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