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I used to be such a lazy Christian. Sure, I had quiet time, but I left God there. I had my self-life and my religious life: the two were diametrically opposed in all respects. I was the epitome of what it meant to be a hypocrite and as that angered me I turned to the idols in my life which I used to cope with the disdain I had for myself.

I like how Michael Wells describes our false selves as “success suits”. We put them on when we want to feel like we are worth something to somebody, and we take them off when we are home and our families see us for who we really are.

The truth is that a lot of us are unlovable because we are insane. If God is real, which I believe He is, then it is acceptable to say that because God created man, God is the pinnacle of reality. To be one with God means to be in touch with reality: sanity. To be out of touch with God means to be out of touch with reality: insanity. As a result we begin listening to anything and everything but God. And yes, because the messages we choose to privy ourselves to are not from God, but from those who think they know everything (wise in the world’s eyes, insane in God’s eyes), it is like taking advice or finding your identity in what someone who is medically insane thinks or says of you (no offense intended).

But, when we quit being lazy and stop living in defeat, we are then able to truly embrace the new self which can be found through a life in Christ.

So the issue is quite interlaced here. The word of God is described as the wellspring of life. If we think of the Bible as something to be read instead of something to be consumed we are simply being wasteful. And, in turn, are leaving God in the Bible and not making Him real in our own lives.