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For many of us, right now, it’s summertime and summertime for a lot of us can be binge watching our favorite tv show, playing video games, going to the pool. Let’s face it, in the summertime….well, even during the school year, we can become complacent...or a little bit lazy in our walk with God.

No matter where you are with your walk with God...whether you're on fire or maybe you've been a little lazy, I want to encourage you to take this little test…don’t worry, it’s only 3 questions long. 

And before we get started, I want to share that I have to do a mental check up quite often to make sure I’m not falling into complacency either. None of us, including me are immune. 

1.    Do you follow Jesus only when it’s convenient or when it’s popular or do you follow Jesus even when it’s not convenient or when you’re around people who don’t believe in Him?

2.    When you’re praying, are you only praying about what Jesus can do for you or are you also taking time to pray about what He wants you to do for Him?

3.    Are you a fan of Jesus or are you a follower of Jesus?  What do I mean by that?

A true follower of anyone, doesn’t just take the time to learn from them, but they try to live like them. 

Imagine you played soccer (you might) and your all-time favorite professional soccer player came up to you and asked you if they could mentor, you. Show you some skills and help you become that top professional soccer player like they are. Would you just listen to them and never apply anything they told you or would you try to do the things that they told you to do. Of course, you would do them, because you want to be the best you can be, right? The same thing is true with Jesus. If we want to win in every area of our lives, we don’t need to just hear what God is saying to us through the Bible, we need to apply it to our lives as well! 

Being a follower of Jesus will mean that there will be times that you will need to give things up in order to follow Him, but I want you to know that when God has you give something up, it’s always because He has something better in store for you. For example, maybe you’ve been a part of your school competition choir, but God has been placing it on your heart to step down. You can’t understand why He would do that, but you choose to listen. After you step down, the youth pastor comes up to you and starts talking to you about being a part of the youth praise team. Because you obeyed, now that time has been freed up in your schedule, you can step into God’s calling for your life. Now that was just an example, I cannot say that’s going to be the case every time. But this is how God works. If He asks you to give something up, it’s because He wants to take you to the next level with something else.

Complacency is a place that we can easily slip into if we’re not cautious. As I said earlier, I have to give myself a checkup from time to time to make sure

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