Our lives are bombarded with many voices, images and information. Marketers have recognized that if the information is shared in bite sized pieces (less information - more often) more people will engage compared to marketing with more content.
Add sound, voice / music plus video or eye-catching pictures even more engagement is measured. Over time, it can change or renew people's mind to start to believe “today's message” of the world.
In today’s world information from all sources puts our minds in the “overload” state, yet some information is still retained. Even if we are not aware of it - it can begin to change our world view!
This information flow can change our world view, our mindset - our belief system. Our belief system is a sum total of all the life experiences, information, influences from people we love and trust, and through all the outside sources from online media.
What we believe about our life experiences or the opinions / expressions from our friends, family and sometimes our church experiences are usually the last to go, but sometimes are eroded ever so slowly that we may not even realize when we last thought about the things that at one time were very important to us. It may have been a mindset or belief system that our lives evolved around! For example you may have grown up in a church and now you haven’t attended for a few years. Or you used to pray to God, but now you haven't even thought about him and can not remember the last time you prayed.
Has the relevance of God in your life changed?
It can be easy to go with the flow and accept “the message” rather than develop or stay true to your own belief system or values. In fact, in the world we now live there are too many people or groups that want to cancel your individualism, if you do not conform to worldly views or ideas.
What is the definition of relevance? Oxford Dictionary defiance relevance:
“A close connection with the subject you are discussing or the situation you are in.”
When I was young and I was in trouble I realized too often the “close connection of the situation I was in” so I would pray. Suddenly I chose to give God relevance in my life. The relevance of the situation was the focal point at the moment & God was my get out of jail card. I realize now that I had it all wrong. If I had made God more relevant in my life I would have avoided the situations and not needed to go through those stressful times.
God has not changed. He loved me back then and He still loves me now, but the relevance of His presence in my life has become my focal point now. I made a decision to renew my mind to what was real, concerning God and make it first place in my life! It has changed who I am & what I believe.
Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from him, 22 throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. 23 Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. 24 Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy. Ephesians 4:21-24 4:23 NLT
Have you felt like a squirrel running in an exercise wheel lately? Maybe it is time to re-evaluate what you have been considering relevant in your life and seek God’s love. God loves you and He has a plan for your life!
You are relevant to God!
God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. 10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. 1 John 4:9-10 NLT