I know I have not posted much in the past weeks and my apologies. I also know that if you an audience and to be honest not sure I do beyond the one, my wife, that you need to post on a regular basis or lose that audience.
I believe this is what I am supposed to do, so God I am sorry. I am sorry that I have not been putting you first in my life recently. I have been consumed with this one game. I feel like since I put a lot of money into it that I should be playing it more, but it has gone way overboard. Also, the company is constantly changing something to the point where it is almost no fun to play since you feel like if you do not play now, then your chances to ever succeed in the game are almost gone forever. This is my problem, but I will need God’s help to resolve and I think He is telling me to sell the accounts since that is what has the thought that keeps entering my head for the past week or two.
Anyway, I know we can all become so involved in something that it will take a great deal of time away from God and make Him lower on our priority list. It can be work, school, entertainment, loved ones, house, games, you name it. We all have to be careful of this trap.
I do not think that God does not want us to do other things in our life since He has already told us that we must work to eat. However, it is the way in which we do these other activities that is important. If we are not careful, these other activities can be our gods and we have already been warned of the consequences of these actions. God is jealous and their shall be no other god before Him.
I urge each of you to take a deep hard look at your life to determine is there another god that is consuming your life. Again this does not mean stop, but it does mean evaluate the situation to determine how important this thing whatever it may be is in your life.
God I pray that you will help each of us to overcome these other gods and to focus our attention back to you once again. Help us to recognize the patterns when we start to give this area of our life way too much attention. One of the easiest pitfalls is money, another is work, and yet another can be video games. I know these are not the only ones out there that can redirect our attention, but they seem to be very prevalent into today’s world. Which ever area of our life seems out of balance and is directing too much of it away from you, please help! Amen!