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I've been working thru an issue here that involved a game that my hubby wanted us to play together. He likes to have me enjoy his computer games with him so that we have something to talk about instead of children. You may have heard of the game, World of Warcraft. I started playing it because he wanted me to and quickly found myself being sucked in. So there were actually two issues going on here. First, it was robbing me of time and causing me to be lazy. Second, there are some really questionable things in this game. We were trying to avoid all the magic and spell casting but you can't totally avoid all that.
 
So the Lord had been "talking" to me about this for about a week or so. I kept trying to ignore His voice and justifying my actions. I told myself, "But my husband wants me to play it. I'm being submissive." Besides, this game was really fun! But like my pastor said last Sunday, "Who says that sin isn't fun??" The breaking point came the other day. I was listening to one of my pastor's wife's messages on Isaiah. She was talking about how the Israelites were consutling mediums, etc. Then she went to a verse in Deut. where it says that all that stuff is an abomination to God. The kicker for me was that it specified even spell casters. I thought to myself, "I know we are not really casting spells, etc. But I don't want to even be PLAYING with something that is so offensive to God!"

So I let my hubby know that I didn't want to play it anymore and explained why. To my shock he told me that God had been talking to him about it too.  I took that as a total confirmation that I was to quit. My hubby has had a harder time pulling away from it. The subscription we got runs out in the middle of November, so he decided that he would continue to play till it ran out and then not renew it. I believe that God has still been working on him though because he said this evening, "I gotta stop playing that game!"

Wow!!! God is sooo good!! Even as I was writing this out, my hubby (who is sitting at the other computer) asked me if his Face Book status came through. He said he wrote a sort of confession about playing the game on there!! And he has quit it and even deleted the game! I know it was hard for you to quit, sweetie!! But I know you will be blessed for it!

I have been feeling like God is smiling down on me since I made the decision to break away from that game. And last night I felt like I got an extra special blessing in that I found a website where I can download Christian Audio books. www.christianaudio.com. They have one free download a month. My goal has been to feast at the Lord's Table as much as I can each day. That means being in the Word, being in fellowship with other believers, worshiping, listening to good sound preaching, etc. I felt like this was God's way of saying, "Since you chose me over that game, I'm giving you this to fill your spiritual cup. Drink deep of Me!" I went to bed last night with overflowing praises in my heart for my Lord!

This afternoon, I got even more blessing! One of the free downloads that I got, thinking that it was a recording of "Desiring God" by John Piper turned out to be something different. It was actually a recording of John Piper speaking to a group of pastors about the life of David Brainerd. If you are unfamiliar with who David Brainerd is, (as was I) he is none other than the father of the modern missionairy movement! Wow!! Listening to that just blessed my socks off! Mr. Brainerd was an amazing man!

Btw, I was able to get my recording of "Desireing God" which is the free audio for this month. Oh, AND I'm getting to listen to a recording of a book by C.S. Lewis which I have overdue from the library! It is the second in his space trilogy, "Perelandra". The really neat thing is that I get to fill my cup while doing other things, like chores around the house, or crochet if those are all done.