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Christians forgetting God

How could I forget God? Did David forget about God when he walked on the roof of the castle and saw a naked woman bathing? He could have looked away and run from the roof, just as Joseph fled from Potiphar’s wife. Instead, David forgot about God and sent a servant for the woman.

Men in the Ministry: “Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

David was the great man of God: the man whom God refers to as the man after His own heart. How did you forget about God? Does forgetting God happen suddenly or is it a process? David is a good example of the process of forgetting God. Start slowly with culturally acceptable practices. In David’s example, in Samuel 5 God records David’s initial assumption of power. It tells us that after leaving Hebron, David took more concubines and wives in Jerusalem. In Deuteronomy 17, God sets the standards for the Hebrew kings. They are commanded to avoid three things: 1) acquire many horses, 2) take many wives, and 3) accumulate a lot of silver and gold. David missed number two. Although it was culturally acceptable, it was a sin for the leaders.

Men in the Ministry, what are concubines allowed to corrupt your life?

In 1960, CS Lewis observed: “There are a lot of people who are gradually ceasing to be Christians, but they still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen.”

We can slowly become numb to sin. This occurs when we create an environment in our life that opens the door to sin and the desire to forget God.

The door opens from television, the Internet, worldly music, radio, tabloids, books, magazines and conversation, flirting in the office or in church. Our list of concubines can be very long. The man who wants soccer, golf or baseball on television or to work or sleep more than time with God or his wife or family. Watching shows on television that contain “adult content” opens a concubine door. We begin to forget about God. We may be ashamed to think about it. I don’t put these things before family or God.

CS Lewis believed that salvation was an ongoing process, not a one-time thing. Conversion is a great event, but one can choose to go back and stop cooperating with the Holy Spirit and thus lose salvation. True believers can fall from grace.

The environment for a growing sanctified life is our responsibility to create and increase space for God in our lives. But we can also create an environment that makes it easier for us to put things in front of God and family.

Living on the west coast, it is easy to see when local teams play soccer on Sundays on the east coast. Games begin at approximately 9:30 am PST. What happens to the men in the congregation? Not all men are attracted to this concubine. What about the families of men who choose a soccer game over fellowship, praise, worship, prayer, and truth from the pulpit?

We are in the world but we are not of the world. We need to live in heaven on earth; with us God brings heaven to earth. “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”

Men in the Ministry, forgetting God becomes very easy for all the worldly and acceptable sins.

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