Spiritual Life

We had Spring Break a little more than a week ago.  How is your spiritual life when you enter into a new environment? I can tell you for me, my Spiritual Life really struggled.  I got home for the week with the intention of getting into God's Word but never did.

Things got busy... I was working, shooting my guns, and I had to prepare a sermon.  Not to give excuses but that was what was going on.  I got off work and decided that I would rather give time to myself and not to God

As the semester gets busier, it gets easier to just pass on the Spiritual life and try to use that time to get homework done or whatever.

Just yesterday I was talking with my dean of Students and he gave me an analogy of our spiritual weapon (Eph. 6)  He related going to the shooting range and working on my shooting to my spiritual walk.  What are the Spiritual things in my life that need to be evaluated and worked on?

So I try to evaluate my spiritual walk, specifically reading my Bible.  I think that the most important thing that I need to work on is my application of Scriptural principles.  I can get  head knowledge in my head so easily, my brain can retain that information but my personality is not always one of action.  I have big talk but I don't have the action to back that talk up always.

I think that is one thing that I struggle with the most among all sorts of other things.

I really liked Dean Cory's analogy because it is something that I could relate to.  Of course all analogies break down when pushed too far but he did a decent job of relating the attention I give to Scripture to that of working on my marksmanship.  It is all well and good to be accurate with a firearm but when the situation calls for it, some people just freeze.  Don't be that guy.  I want to be able to be accurate and be able to achieve that marksmanship when the situation calls for it!