Apathetic is a pathetic way to be
OCT 16th 2006 • 3 Comments
Recently I have been finding myself very apathetic towards God. I think that this may be partially due to my lack of discipline in my daily cycle of activities. I don't manage my time as well as I probably should and I end up wasting a lot of time throughout the day. It's probably the root of every problem that I get. I need to find the time to have close, personal, heart-felt, alone-time with God in prayer on a day to day basis. I think that's the key to living a Christian life that glorifies God and not myself.
God's not a waste of time
It's incredibly easy to do work for school for an hour, but it's incredibly hard to take that hour and spend it with my God instead. Satan is so effective at making anything other than God look better and a better use of time. What can I do but pour that out to God and ask for His help?
With that being said, I'm going to stop typing up this entry and go pray to my God and ask Him to remove this apathy.
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Andrew J • Feb 10th 2007 • 10:55 am
Hey Uncle, Dave, I just stumbled across a link to your blog when I was digging through my email, and I happened to see the link to your blog. I think that this post here is great! Very thoughtful!
Andrew
Auntie Sue • Jul 18th 2008 • 9:50 am
Suggesting that Satan is effective (read as 'to blame') at making anything other than devotion to God seem better, is just placing the blame and guilt of your dwindling faith on anything other than yourself. If you have issues, stop blaming a mythical character and accept that you might be changing, possibly for the better.
Sue
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Dave Joyce • Jul 18th 2008 • 12:16 pm
Point taken Sue. While I don't believe Satan is mythical, I don't think he can be blamed for the depravity of mankind apart from God's Grace.
Suppose I *were* to accept my apathy towards God and I went on to be a generous, wonderful person. What value would there be in any of that if Christ is not given the glory? Any good in my life is by the Grace of God, and I would be ashamed if I tried to credit that good to myself. That's why I don't want to be apathetic