What things take us away from God?

Today's Gospel we heard that Herod killed John the Baptist, even when he knew that John was righteous and holy man. so what did happen to him? Well, Herod put his own being above God and his law, and it took him far away from God and his mercy. Herod preferred to please the human heart rather than God. He said: “Ask of me whatever you wish and I will grant it to you.” and he did He murdered a holy man in order to please his own desires, and that happens nowadays, the world asks us the same. Every day temptation comes to our door and asks  us: ask whatever you wish and I will grant it to you, and some times we agree with it, and doing that we are killing things that come from God. The world wants to destroy our standards of conduct in front of God. The world wants us slave from our own desires and with that we kill our own relationship with God. Have you ever thought what takes us away from God? Maybe money, certain kind of friends, business, conversations? These and more could be our own Herod ready to behead our more precious gift: Our relationship with God.