• Setting Your Faith Aside

  Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Oct 4, 2011 (message contributor)

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SETTING YOUR FAITH ASIDE

Have you ever thought you could separate from God ... just for a little while ... and then later on turn back to God? Unfortunately we all do this ... in big ways or small ways. Any time we decide to live a life INDEPENDENT of God, we run a big risk.

I remember a friend of ours years ago who was working on her English Doctoral degree. She came to visit us toward the end of the degree because she was on the verge of an affair and a divorce. She'd fallen out of love with her husband. She'd quit going to church. She'd even lost interest in music, which was one of her greatest talents.

In talking to her she explained that her Dissertation required her to write about a godless world-view. She had made an intentional decision to set her faith aside for a year or so and see what it was like to dive into a faithless way of thinking. Her Dissertation was accepted. Her Life was in shambles.

Don't make the mistake of thinking you can set your faith aside just for a while. Any time you disconnect from God, you quickly go from this ... to this. (hold up white and dirty linen pieces) Jeremiah 13:1-11