Isn't it so beautiful when you can gather around believers, worship God, and realize once more who God is? Drop everything and submit your life to Him? It's a moment where you cry out to Him, because He is near and you can feel Him. He is tangible. He is visible. So you give everything away.
Two weeks later... you ignore His existence. His prodding, convictions, words, even the blessings He tries to offer. What else can you do? Life has taken control. Life is normal. God is no longer "tangible".
This is when you need a reminder. We shouldn't really need to be reminded that God is love, God is in control, God is there.... Run to God, give Him your all.... I mean, there's always something to distract you, or some realization pushing out God. Maybe you believe you've given enough. Maybe you think there's nothing else to give. Maybe you don't even think about giving. (When I hit this point, I need to sit down and pray God will awaken me. I stop and pray, "Please take from me my life when I don't have the strength to give it away, O God"--which are lyrics from Take My Life, by Third Day.)
Often I can pray this for days before I finally "see" God again--but I follow God in what way I know to, holding onto the truth of who God is. I know He is love, so I thank Him for that, even when I can't properly love back. I know He gives commands, so I follow them--I fail, but I'm crying out to God to put me back on the path that leads to Him.
We shouldn't rely on "feelings" to submit to God. He is there, whether we're on a spiritual high or not--but we often think He is far when we don't see Him. (Like a blind man protesting no one's in the room, because He doesn't see a thing.) Yet we do. I can only push forward, gripping the essentials of God's character.
Here is the reason we drop "things of this world"! We abandon all things of distraction (believe me when I say its hard). You distracted? STOP. For, as CS Lewis says, "If a transtemporal, transfinite good is our real destiny, then any other good on which our desire fixes must be in some degree fallacious, must bear at best only a symbolical relation to what will truly satisfy."
English translation (or at least Brina-ish translation): When we are headed towards God and the crown of righteousness He offers, any distraction or idol which we put ahead of God must be stupid. They are simply truths twisted into monstrous lies that hold no satisfaction, in the end. Why focus on it?
The number is the same as the sand on the shore
But every time You've taken me back
And now I pray You do it once more.
Chorus:
Please take from me my life
When I don't have the strength
to give it away to You Jesus
How many times have I turned away
The number is the same as the stars in the sky
But every time You've taken me back
And now I pray You do it tonight.
