4. To Avoid Forsaking God ... 1. Keep Him First. 2. Know Self. (Jer. 2:19) Your own wickedness shall chasten and correct you, and your backslidings and desertion of faith shall reprove you. Know therefore and recognize that this is an evil and bitter thing: [first,] you have forsaken the Lord your God; [second,] you are indifferent to Me and [third} the fear of Me is not in you, says the Lord of hosts. - Amplified Bible
5. Forsake not God till you find a better master – Scottish Proverb
6. To Avoid Forsaking God ... 1. Keep Him First. 2. Know Self. (I John 5:21) 21Little children, keep yourselves from idols (false gods)--[from anything and everything that would occupy the place in your heart due to God, from any sort of substitute for Him that would take first place in your life]. Amen (so let it be). - Amplified Bible