Language attrition refers to the gradual decline or loss of proficiency in a language, especially one’s first or native language, over time, typically due to a lack of use or exposure. In some military training it is taught that if you became a prisoner of war and don’t hear your own language for 20 years that you would forget how to talk your own language. Imagine not knowing your native language. Not being able to speak it nor understand it. That sounds far fetched. Well, I was told of a man that went 5 years without being around his family and did not speak his native language for that amount of time. He said that when he did get around them, that he had trouble keeping up with them. After some time he was able to keep up. That was just 5 years. Imagine if it had been 20 years. He even said that he realized that he had begun to dream in the new language that he had learned and not his native language.
You see, if we begin to distance ourselves from God and going to church, then we begin to forget things. If we finally remove ourselves totally. We over time will find ourselves doing things that we thought we’d never do. Things that sound ridiculous to you now or too far-fetched to believe that you would ever do them. For sin can become your taskmaster. It can hold you hostage for years. To the point that you don’t even recognize the things of God. The old adage, “sin will take you further than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and make you pay more than you want to pay.” It will even affect your dreams and ambitions. You won’t want the same things as you did before.
Do not let anything distract you and take you away from living for God. Don’t become a servant to sin, a prisoner to the enemy. Don’t find yourself so far from God that you don’t even recognize Him.
Hebrews 10:24-25 WEB 24 Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
Romans 6:12-16 KJV 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
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