Judges 10:6 "Again the Israelites did evil in the Lord's sight. They served the images of Baal and Ashtoreth, and the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, Ammon, and Phistia. They abandoned the Lord and no longer served him at all"

In Judges, you see the same vicious cycle over and over and over and over again. The people of Israel feel peace, then when things are good they begin to abandon the Lord to worship idols, thus leading them to be oppressed. Finally, they cry out for God, and he delivers them, and then they go back to peace.
Isn't it weird that they abandon God when they are at peace? When things are going good, when life is plentiful and they are not being oppressed? Well, if you notice, in today's society we do the same thing.
It's always easy to cry out to God when things are hard, when you're faced with a mountain of troubles and you know that he's the only one that will ever be able to make sense of it all. It's easy for us to cry out to him and ask him for his help.
But when things are good, how much credit do you give to God?
When it's a sunny day, do you give credit to God, or just to the day? When you get 100 percent on your physics final, do you give credit to the teacher for making an easy test? Yourself for being smart? And when you have a great friend that always sticks with you through and through, or a great boyfriend that tells you how much he loves your heart and soul, do you give credit to them for being the great people?
What we fail to realize sometimes is that GOD GIVES US ALL OF THIS. All of the people in our lives, all of the money we have, all of our successes. So where do we get off falling in love with these things, and not even giving credit to the wonderful God who made them?

To think about...
What if you thought about God as much as you thought about your boyfriend?
What if you talked to God as much as you talked to your best friend every day?
What if you read God's word as much as you read Facebook statuses and text messages from your friends?
What is you spent as much time in fellowship with your youth group or other christians as you do at parties or other events with non-christians?
How much would life change?

God never abandons you. You only abandon him.