Friday, November 12, 2010

You don't want to hear this

How long will you love delusions and seek false gods?
Psalm 4:2


God is not OK with you.

He loves you but...

He is definitely not OK with you.

Before you grab your torches and pitchforks, let me make something clear. God's not OK with me either.

You cannot love your sin and be OK with God. You cannot declare it from the rooftops (or on Facebook depending on how you roll) while defying anyone to call your sin what it is...sin and be OK with God.

We have this really bad habit of making idols. We don't want to worship the One True God and His Son. We want to worship our chosen lifestyle, a few selected verses from the Bible or even a God we have created. One who is only love without judgement of any kind. We're like teenagers who think their lives would be perfect if only their parents would let them do whatever they want.

Let me give you an example. My ex-husband's wife says this about their adultery. "We may have gone about it in the wrong way but God wanted us to be together." I could honestly write a whole book about that statement. But for my purpose here let me just say this. You know you have created a false god in your own image when that god hates what you hate, loves what you love and approves of any actions you do as long as the outcome is what you desire.

God wants more than anything to be OK with all of us. He wanted it so much that he sacrificed His Son to atone for all our sins. But declaring your allegiance with Jesus while simultaneously relishing in sin is like trying to cover up cancer with a band aid. You aren't fooling anyone except perhaps...yourself.

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