About 9 months ago, I gave up TV. Cut it out. Why? I was consumed by it. I watched about 20 hours of TV a week... TOO MUCH. I decided that God had so much more than my personal entertainment in mind for me when he created me. And once and for all I CHOSE to find out what that was. God has since opened my eyes to a whole life's worth of activities and callings that I had previously chosen to ignore by choosing TV instead of God's plans for me.Since then, I've noticed myself backsliding. Sliding away from the God I felt so close to in my struggle to choose Him over TV. As the struggle lessened, I drifted further. Good in one sense - I was less tempted to watch TV, but bad in the sense that I started investing more on other things. I started choosing other things over God. Very few of these things were necessarily "bad"... especially by worldly standards. I invested a little more of my time in my triathlon training, time with friends, blogging/interwebs... all ok, even good by just about anyone's standards.
However, when it comes to my relationship with God, the problem was (and is) that when it comes down to it, I love doing these things so much, that if and when I need to choose between spending time doing these "good" things, and spending time doing something else God may want for me to be doing, I choose X over God. In the simplest way I can put it, that makes these "good" things "bad". Not at their core, only in that at times, X pulls me away from God. NO... that's not even right. X doesn't do anything, I choose X over God. It's not X's fault, it's my CHOICE... it's me. Enter the transition from a blog about TV, to a blog about choices...
So from now on - this blog is about all choices... big and small... and how in each choice I make, I'm practicing becoming more intentional about choosing God over X. Enjoy! Hopefully this will help bring us all a little closer to the God who loves us.
