Not to Another

Ive been laying in bed for probably like 21 minutes or so now, and cant get a line out of my head. It got stuck in it earlier when i read a post to a blog that my girlfriend and her/our good friend started. You can check their blog out at http://wastethedayaway.tumblr.com/

The line says "give us clean hands, and give us pure hearts; let us not lift our souls to another" Its taken me a while to realize that giving our souls to another, doesn't just mean to another person, but in fact to anyone, or anything other than Christ our savior.

In the bible study I lead, we've started talking about how to live life as a guy in Christ, and its brought up stuff that guys struggle with, a lot. Drugs, drinking, partying, sex, pornography, bullying, etc. Its also gotten me thinking about the fact that its not just guys who struggle with it. Its us all, especially with sex, drugs, and drinking. The ten commandments command us not to have false idols, the song says not to lift our souls to another, but what they're both saying, is that if we worship something other than god, were turning our backs on him, and what we believe. If we put our focus in things other than pleasing him with our every move, our every word, our every thought, then were not praising him. Were lifting our souls to things of this world. Don't get me wrong, i'm not saying that having a good time is wrong, or that Christianity bans having fun, but if our having fun shames what we believe, then yea, its wrong. Ill be honest, partying and drinking are fun. But if its not legal, and we do it anyways, then it shames the gospel. Lately, over the past few months, Ive seen a lot of people i know, some people i know really well, take a "turn for the worse" i don't want to be judgmental, but its hard to sit back and just watch, sometimes i just want to try and tell them that as fun as it is, its wrong. Ive made mistakes, and i really regret them. I want a way to be able to tell them how truth in Christ will "out fun" drinking and partying and getting high any day.

I have a hard time believing in things that cannot be seen or felt, smelled or tasted, faith, its hard for me. But anyone who believes will agree with me, that feeling you got, when you first accepted Christ into your life, that is the greatest feeling in the world. I'm getting "god bumps"(courtesy of Jordan Sasser) right now just thinking about it. Though our relationships with Christ are a struggle at times, they are fun, amazing, eye opening, and above all else, a blessing beyond our greatest imaginations.

Its time we, myself included, set our sights, our hearts, our souls on God. Not on another person, thing, or idea. Its time we focused on the center of our faith, made God the center of our lives, and gave ourselves to him, once again.