Pig Pens, Video Games, and Direction

This is a nice illustration of us trying to fix a problem without God. Reading Psalm 23, I realize how poorly things go that I try to handle on my own in the "valley". They don't make a video game (that I know of) where you are in a spiritual battle and have God as one of your weapons. It wouldn't make sense because you would stand no chance of winning without him and be guaranteed to defeat the enemy with him, so what would be the point of playing? Well, maybe we should sit down and play it everytime we think we can do it without him, huh?...and realize how much we need him.

Here's a question for thought? Would you rather your life be good or appear good? I think most people would honestly say they want it to be good even though not all of our actions always show that, but here's another question: Would you rather your life be good and not know where it's going or be rough and heading in the right direction? Be careful...that's not as easy of a choice. You can think your life is good, but you may be required to let it get rough TO head in the right direction...