One of my students at youth group has been asking practical questions about following God. For example, the main topic of conversation at our youth group recently was, “what about the things I do that are wrong but don’t want to stop doing? what does God say about that?”

Many of us want to follow God but we’ve got things in our life which we know God doesn’t approve of. So we muster up the courage to try and ‘stay clean’ for a certain amount of time but then we end up failing. After we fail, we then think the pursuit of God is futile, hopeless or insane. At which point many people turn to 1 of 2 options. Pretend like they are following God OR forget following God all together.

Haven’t we all been there? We believe that God would not endorse a certain activity we participate in and yet we continue to do it anyway?

If this issue isn’t dealt with in a clear, logical, and coherent manner, then most people would opt out of a relationship with God in favor of some pseudo/fake Christianity.

There are multiple ways of addressing those areas in our life which we have difficulty “handing over” to God. We should seek the help of others(accountability), counseling(editability), fellowship(fun friends), prayer, Scripture memory, music, and many more tools. These tools can be effective in helping us not to fail but I think we’ve got to come to grips with our own inabilities.
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