Sink or Swim?

So recently I came up with an analogy to represent our walk with God, or should I say swim?.......So our life as a christian starts out and everything is great, we are close to God, reading our Bible, praying. I see God as always being there, he's always on the surface of the water. We are always right below the water, some closer to God, some farther away. When we pray and are fighting for a true relationship with God, we find ourselves swimming closer to the surface, closer to God. Sometimes things start to drag us away from God, whether our non-christian friends aka: drowning, struggling people sinking below us and trying to grab a hold of us as they sink, or whether tragedies aka: larger fish and other huge monsters such as sharks start to tear us apart and drown us, or whether we just find ourselves not praying or not reading our Bible as often as we used to aka: the currents start to pull us away from God. Suddenly, somehow we find ourselves slowly being dragged away from God and we find our lives getting darker and filled with sin. Our lives are so dark we can't even see where we are going. All of a sudden, we are at the bottom of the ocean and we can't see the surface anymore, we can't see the light of God anymore. After wandering around in the dark for some time, we see this light, it seems almost as good as God's light. So we follow this false light, this good in disguise, this attempt by Satan to further draw us away from God. After a while, this light lets loose its true colors and we see how evil this light is. We struggle and we try to get away from this evil light, but we can't do it alone. God sees our struggle and he sends help to bring us back to Him. This help can come in several ways, it could be a song we hear on the radio, or maybe a friend reminds us how much we want to please God. Someway, somehow we feel the pull of someone grabbing us and pulling us away from danger, this lifeguard brings us back close to the surface. We are so close now that we can feel God's presence and we start praying and reading our Bible again. Thus is our swim, our struggle to constantly please God. How will you go about your christian life? Will you chose to sink or swim?