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What would your life look like without God? Would your life look any different then it does now? How much is God a part of your life? Is He the multiplication factor for your life (determines everything else) or just an addition to it? Honestly, I struggle with this question a ton. I don't rely on God for any physical needs. I have a roof over my head, clothes on my back, and food to eat every day. My health is good, and my gas tank is full. Where is God in my life? Do I just fit Him in with my schedule where I feel He belongs? Do we even begin to take seriously our faith? Is God important to you? Is He really worth giving up in the world just to follow Him? Would you deny your family and friends just to follow Him? Would you leave college if you felt like He called you to some area of ministry? Do we value education more then God? Would you be willing to take the step of faith and go anywhere? Are you willing to be anything? Or do we decided these things and fit God, make God, an addition to our life? Who are we to think we can decided how our relationship is like with the almighty God! God demands He be the multiplication factor, the factor that determines everything else in our life. God is the center of our life, not ourself. Our life is not about me but all about God. More of Him, and less of me! We don't get this though. We continue on in our patterns of life. We continue on wasting time, making bad decisions, sinning, turning our back on God, making Christianity about me, and denying God to His face. We ignore Him and flounder around in sin. God despises sin!! But somehow we think sin is okay or that God will understand.

A good friend of mine sent me an e-mail this past week talking about prayer. "Not only are we called to be faithful disciples of Christ, not only are we called to trust in the Lord Jesus in order to receive forgivness of sins and new life, we are also called to prayer. Any Christian who does not take prayer seriously is missing a key part of their relationship with God."  How much prayer do you think is enough? Do you spend 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes? Or hours? Our life should be characterized by a life of prayer-- continually/hours of reflection/prayer to God. Doesn't our prayer life reflect how much we care about our relationship with God?


At a Christian college, it is very easy to be over saturated to the extent we don't put much of a priority on our relationship with God. After all, we get devotional after devotional with short little prayers. Is our pursuit of following God by going to a Christian university actually hindering our relationship with Him? We are not challenged in our faith. We accept the status quo.