In or Out?

My kids can never make up their minds.  They want to ride their bikes, they want to play inside, they want to play basketball, they want to watch TV.  My back door never stops opening. Someday they'll decide where they want to be and they'll stay put.  We can be like that as Christians too.  We want to follow God, but something more interesting comes along.  We feel guilty because we abandon God and return, only to be lured away again.  God loves us and knows our hearts and is waiting when we come back.  As you continue to practice your faith, you get better at it.  That is, you get better at staying faithful to God.  It's very easy to let temptation lure you away and very hard to stay strong.  Satan preys at our weaknesses.  He knows exactly what to say or show us to distract us from our focus on God.  He'll use your vanity, your children, your self-doubt or whatever else he can find.  You have to decide if you're going to let Satan keep you OUT of God's plan for you or if you're going to fight to stay IN God's plan.  The fight against Satan and temptation never ends.  Satan knows my weakness - financial concerns and waste.  He uses my children to get to me.  They get into to food when we're on a tight budget and eat things that are ingredients for meals.  I don't have the money to replace these ingredients and I let stress over finances take over instead of handing my worries to God.  So I snap in front of my children and lose my temper.  I try to teach my children when we're worried, we need to pray for God to take our worries away otherwise Satan sneaks IN and we want to keep him OUT of our lives.  Leave God in control - I know this is so hard to do.  Just to trust He'll take care of all your worries, but if you trust in God, He'll never let you down.  

Romans 3:23 For we all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 

God loves me despite all of my flaws and sins, but that doesn't mean he loves my flaws and sins, he wants me to try and improve myself.  He doesn't expect me to be perfect, he wants me to try to be perfect.  I love all of my friends and family despite their flaws and sins, but that doesn't mean I want you to keep sinning.  Rethink your faith and examine your life, do you really know where you're going?