Can you hear me now??

Okay so I finished reading Judges the other day and I realized something about God's choosen people. We suck! Oh my gosh, every few years the people would fall back into their disgusting ways and then beg God to send someone to save them when things weren't working out. Didn't they know that this is what he had promised if they didn't follow him?? He told them blantantly, I will ruin you if you turn away from me. But they kept following after other gods trying to find something better and then in the end always running back to God.
It made me look at my own life and wonder, how often do I do the same thing? How often do I try to find peace in the world and then come running back to Christ when everything else falls through. I've found that the thing I go after most is love, for some reason I just need love. And that's okay, God gave me that desire to love, he gave it to me so that I would desire to love him. But I always find myself looking to friends and family and boys trying to find that support and in the last year it has really hit me that I don't need any of that to find true love, because the love that I have been granted is so much better than that. God gave his son, he doesn't leave me when I suffer, and he never uses me for his on pleasure.
So I challenge you to think what it is in your life that pulls you away from Christ time and time again. I encourage you not to be like the Israelites of that age, stick with God, he will make you prosper when the time comes. Remember, "Condsider it pure joy, my brothers, when you face trials of many kinds. For you know that the testing of your faith develops perserverence. Perserverence must finish it's work so that you will be mature and complete. Not lacking anything." -James 1: 2-4