What is, "drifting away?" Have you ever just sat there and pondered on the meaning of these two very powerful, but yet sorrowful words? If you are lost and have been saved, and started backsliding because you may have become lazy in your daily habits for the Lord, been in a situation where you didn't feel God's presence, or maybe satan starts hassling you to the point you feel you are going to break. Either way, if you have turned your back on God, you might just find yourself drifting away. 

So many times, I feel as if the stumbling blocks of this world are a great inconvenience and can often feel like gut wrenching pressure to distract us from God’s goodness. When I was having the “emotional feeling” of being saved in the past, when those stumbling blocks arose, I felt that God was turning His back on me. As selfish as I am as a person, how quick was I to say, “God has turned from me!” Aren’t we quick to think the worst at times? We must shut those feelings down immediately, turn to the Scripture’s for truth, and pray. We need to be just as faithful to God, as He is to us!  God loves us all so much. He is working it all out for our good, but….

Have you ever read the story in the Bible, about the woman that had uncontrollable bleeding for twelve years, located in Mark 5:24-34? Imagine, living in a world where your parents disown you, you have no family that wants you, you do not have any friends, and you longed for a husband, but no man would even come near you in fear of becoming unclean; even when the people in public see you, they yell at you announcing to everyone how unclean and filthy you are. For twelve years you have had an uncontrollable bleeding disorder. You spent every dime you owned on doctors that promised they could help you, but they never helped, in fact, they only ended up making matters worse. Now, you are in debt because you’ve spent your life savings on these doctors, and you’ve put these expensive procedures on credit, and that’s even more debt. You have no money, you got evicted, you lost your job because of the bleeding, and now you have no car, nowhere to sleep, you are all alone, and deserted. Not to mention you are too weak to walk because you’ve lost so much blood. You feel these is no hope in sight. I couldn’t even begin to imagine how she must have felt.

Whether you are in a relationship that is a friendship, boyfriend or girlfriend, promised, engaged, or married; whatever stage we are in, we must have Jesus above it, at the center of it, and over it. Jesus has to be the top priority in any relationship. So, imagine a chart, God (The Father), Jesus (The Son), The Holy Spirit, The Word of God, your partner, yourself, and everything else after that.

Today, I would like to share with you, something I tend to struggle with. Now, if you are a google freak such as I, you will understand. Before I came to have a personal relationship with Jesus, google was my go-to on everything. Now, when I need to look up anything pertaining to Christ, The Bible, or anything from God’s goodness, I use the concordance in my Bible as my go-to. I am not saying google is a bad thing, but when “googling” God, His Word is where I see it best, for me. Some articles are good for a deeper Spiritual truth. You just have to be extremely careful with what you read.