I don’t have time to be as involved in the ministry.
I still come to church as long as I don’t have more pressing matters. Some people will attempt to hold you back from giving your all for Christ.įor a person to reach his or her potential for God it may require them to break some relationship strings that have tied them down and has hindered them from going on in their walk with God.Ģ. One of the things you will discover as you grow in your walk with the Lord is that not everyone is going to be thrilled with your growth. There are times when it might be necessary to spend less time w. They had gotten too comfortable with life in captivity that they no longer desired to return. Not all of the Jews returned to Jerusalem to build the temple.
You will not answer the phone or respond to their emails.īenjamin and Judah (Ezra 1:5) priests and Levites went to build the house of the Lord. You begin to avoid other believers who are trying to reach out to you. people who have different convictions than I do. You still have an ability to talk using spiritual jargon that sounds good on the surface. Isolation- You begin to separate yourself from God’s people.Ĭhurch attendance is decreased and spiritual disciplines are not as important or significant in my life. Symptoms of Getting off Track Spirituallyġ. If we see ourselves with one or more of these symptoms we could be getting off track spiritually. Is the child running a fever, how long have they been running a temperature, do they have a sore throat, are their glands swollen, are they sick to their stomach, When your child suddenly becomes ill, you call the doctor and the first thing the doctor wants to know is what the child’s symptoms are. I want us to give thought to the symptoms because the symptoms are often easier to identify than the root cause. In order for us to know if we are getting off track we need to look at the symptoms of getting off track spiritually. certain sins or habits that other people struggle with. We can develop a smug attitude about ourselves because we do not struggle w.
We can very innocently and almost injudiciously slip into attitudes and ideas that do not reflect the God we worship. In fact it is far easier to get off track spiritually than it is to stay on track with God. None of us are immune to getting off track when it comes to spiritual matters. after the rebuilding of the temple when God burdened Nehemiah’s heart to lead the people in rebuilding the walls around the city of Jerusalem. They did not complete the rebuilding of the temple for 20 yrs.
In 535BC they return and start the work but then they get busy building their own homes that they begin to neglect God’ house. King Cyrus of Persia has granted the Jews to return and rebuild the temple. in captivity some of the exiles return under the leadership of Zerubbabel. God brings judgment on his people by allowing Babylon under the direction of Nebuchadnezzar to besiege the city of Jerusalem, destroying its city, it temple and stripping the sacred articles out of the temple. God’s people violated that law for 490 yrs., thereby violating the Sabbath law 70 times. They had failed to observe the Sabbatical law which stated the land was to be worked for six years and then given a year to rest. The Jewish people had failed to obey God’s laws. The city of Jerusalem had been destroyed and God’s people had been captured and hauled off into Babylonian captivity in 605BC. This is a story of how God’s people had gotten off track spiritually and now with God’s help were seeking to get back on track spiritually.