How dare he?!

“Friendship with the world is hatred toward God!”   (James 4:4)   Who does this guy think he is!?!

Is he telling me it’s NOT OK to love my team more than my church?   Is he telling me it’s NOT OK to spend more on my entertainment than I do on missions?   Is he telling me … telling me…that loving God should supercede all other loves…

This is hard stuff…submit to God sounds so…submissive.   Am I willing to do that?  We have such a negative view of “submission”…and where did that negative view come from….certainly not from scripture!   In scripture, submitting to God ALWAYS results in blessing and protection.   So who told us that submission is bad…ah, yes….it is the “world”… the same world that would seduce us away from our 1st Love…and we just blithely go thinking we’re not so bad as some…

Lord, have mercy.

 

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