Ghaflah

I'm told that the greatest sin in the Muslim faith is:

Ghaflah (غفلة)
heedlessness, forgetfulness of God, indifference

That is quite honorable for them; shameful for me.

How often do I forget God?

How often do I not pay Him heed?

How often do I appear to live indifferently to the presence of God?

This may not be something that the onlooker may notice but God & I do. Today, this one hit me between the eyes.

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

(Romans 12:1-2 The Message)