Consequences

Tonight I started thinking about the consequences of sin in particular. I knew, from experience, sin causes anguish and unsettling of heart; it brings shame and sorrow; it brings judgement. But I wanted to find, and share, specific verses that speak of God's judgement on sin. I recalled several things being mentioned in the book of Psalm, so that's where I went. I turned to chapter 1 and went on from there.

Please, read through them all. I only went to chapter 51, so it's not the entire book of Psalm.

• Driven away by the wind. ( "The wicked are not so,
      but are like chaff that the wind drives away." Ps. 1:4)
• Perishing. ("for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
      but the way of the wicked will perish." Ps. 1:6)
• Loss of having God's delight. ("For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;
      evil may not dwell with you." Ps. 5:4)
• Destruction. ("You destroy those who speak lies;" Ps. 5:6)
• Will have God whet His sword, ready His bow[in judgement]. (If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;" Ps. 7:12)
• Sin comes back around. ("His mischief returns upon his own head," Ps. 7:16)
• Violence descends on the sinner. ("    and on his own skull his violence descends." Ps. 7:16)
• Judgement as severe as coals raining on the sinner; fire sulfur and a scorching wind. ("Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup." Ps. 11:6)
• Multiplied sorrows. ("The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply;" Ps. 16:4)
•  God seems tortuous. --Read the definitions!-- ("with the purified you show yourself pure;
      and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous." Ps. 18:26)
•  God will tear down the workers of evil, and will build them up no more. ("Because they do not regard the works of the Lord or the work of his hands, he will tear them down and build them up no more." Ps. 28:5)
• Strength fails. ("my strength fails because of my iniquity," Ps. 31:10)
• Bones waste away. (" and my bones waste away." Ps. 31:10. "For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long."  Ps. 32:3)
•  God's hand heavy on sinner. ("For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;" Ps. 32:4)
• Strength dried up. ("my strength was dried up^[b] as by the heat of summer. " Ps. 32:4)
• No soundness in flesh. ("There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation;" Ps. 38:3)
•    No health in bones. ("there is no health in my bones because of my sin." Ps. 38:3.)
•  Becomes too heavy. ("For my iniquities have gone over my head;
      like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me." Ps. 38:4)
• Wounds[of judgement] fester because of foolishness[presumably of not dealing with sin]. ("My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness," Ps. 38:5)
•   Feeble, crushed, tumultuous heart. ("I am feeble and crushed;
      I groan because of the tumult of my heart." Ps. 38:8)
• Heart throbs. ("My heart throbs;" Ps. 38:10)
• Light of eyes gone. ("and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me." Ps. 38:10)
• Friends stand aloof. ("My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague,
      and my nearest kin stand far off." Ps. 38:11)
• God consumes all that is dear. ("you consume like a moth what is dear to him;" Ps. 39:11)
• Heart fails. (my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me." Ps. 40:12)
• Loss of joy of salvation. ("Restore to me the joy of your salvation," Ps. 51:12)

When I anticipated doing this mini-study, I expected verse after verse to jump out at me screaming what sin does to you. I expected death here, sorrow there, and heartache all around. But something interesting happened instead. There were two majors themes that I took note of. And the ratio of the two were 2:1 or 3:1, if not more. (I'm not a math scholar and I didn't actually count it all out.)  Whenever God revealed in His word that there were consequences for sin, He usually surrounded and countered it with consequences for righteous living. 


Numerous times David, through God's inspiration, wrote of the righteous being saved, or God being a refuge for the righteous, or God being a help, comfort, strength, defender, shield. He spoke of the righteous being blessed, happy, loved, favored, directed, established, given things.


And that's what's interesting.  The end consequence of sin is death and destruction. There are a few "premature" judgements of temporal effects: heart pains, lack of strength, no joy, etc. Not too many varieties to "choose from." But they are severe none the less. (And the one judgement that stuck out to me the most was the one that stated God consumes all that is dear to us like a moth. )
But God is not a God of judgement. He judges, yes. He is the Judge, yes. But He doesn't seek to judge. He seeks to bless. He unrolls his tarp of optional rewards and consequences for His righteous children and smiles, wondering what blessing He should bestow next. Peace? Refuge? Power? Guidance? 
But it anguishes Him to punish us. He is in every way tormented by sin as we are in our judgement. After all, it was for our sins that Christ bore every blow, every taunt, every ounce of hatred.


So, let's briefly reflect on the severity of sin. It has consequences; and it ranges in variety to a degree. But the most troubling and tragic consequence of sin is making God sad. God: the creator of the universe, the sustainer of earth and man, the one who controls the weather, the one who exists eternally, the one who can stop the mouths of lions, prevent the scorching powers of fire, and knows every single star of billions and trillions by name. That God. The God who is completely and utterly indescribable. That God. He takes our sin so seriously, so personally that His heart breaks. He stares in disbelief and anguish when His children love sin more than Him. He grieves at the quenching of the Spirit. 
--Throw all other consequences in the garbage disposal and meditate on that. Forget everything you've ever heard about God and His response to sin. Let it wash over you with supreme newness. God--is--saddened--by--your--sin.


It's a sobering thought that I--a mere speck of dust, a mere single human in the line of billions of humans before me and after me--can make the God of the universe tear up because I sinned against Him.




Now. Take that thought and set it aflame and place it in the back of your mind so that it glows bright enough that you notice it at every moment, but not that it blinds you. Make sure it is not your focus.


Because here is the thing. Focusing on sin will not keep sin out of our lives. When we wake up in the morning and think to ourselves "I don't want to sin"; when we go through our days struggling with the decisions to sin or not; when we lay down at night thinking about the sins we've committed and resolve to live better the next day--when we do all that, we have put our focus on sin and earth and the flesh. But God tells us to set our minds on the things of heaven, to turn our eyes to Jesus, to not be carnally minded. We can't do that if we parrot to ourselves the phrase "be better; don't sin."

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. --Galatians 5:16

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.  --Colossians 3:2

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.  --Hebrews 12:2

So, let's do just that. Let's look at Jesus. We know that he was "in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin." (Heb. 4:15) We also know on three specific cases that we was tempted by Satan physically. He was tempted to fulfill the lusts of the flesh, the pride of life, and the lusts of the eyes. (Matt. 4:1-11; 1 John 2:16)  We know that in all of that, He didn't sin.

But let's consider what brought him to that point where he did not sin. Was he going through that day praying He wouldn't sin, resolving not to sin, focusing on Satan and his tempting ways? No. Luke explains that "Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness." (Luke 4:1) Both Matthew and Luke attest to the fact that Jesus was fasting.  In the brevity of research conducted, fasting wasn't used in the Bible as a "preventative" to sin. It was done in repentance of sin, or protection of harm or the like. But often fasting was associated with prayer in order to deepen one's walk with God.

So, Jesus was led by the Spirit to go to the wilderness. While there, he fasted and evidently prayed. His focus was on God and being closer to His Father. Sure temptation came, but he wasn't setting out not to sit. He set out to be close to God.


That's the crux. We need to set out to follow God, to keep our eyes on Him, to walk in the Spirit. Everything else will fall into place. If you don't want to sin, if you want to love God more, if you want to be the Christian God wants you to be, then focus on being closer to God. Walk in the Spirit.

Denying ourselves sin will not bring us indefinitely to God. But bringing ourselves closer to God by abiding in Him (John 15) will lead us to deny ourselves sin because we want to remain close to Him. (Gal. 5:16). Oh taste and see that the Lord is good!




Now that you have the burning knowledge of God's grievance when we sin against Him, allow that to shine the light on Jesus' face so we can focus on Him and follow Him wherever He leads.

Don't be so caught up in focusing on sin that it becomes your god, your idol, your goal not to achieve. Focus on God, determining to walk in the Spirit.


Give up your sin pursuits. Give up your devotion to Not Sinning. Turn your eyes on Jesus and devote yourselves to Him and His holiness, resolving to walk in the Spirit.




Walk in the Spirit and you will not gratify the things of the flesh.
It's as simple as that.


 

Don't be Foolish.

There are many ways to be foolish in life. We can run across a busy road without looking both ways; we can jiggle the lock on the cage of a bear; we can tramps about the nest of snakes; we can fling open our car door without checking for cars driving by.

But there are worse ways to be foolish. We can go to church every time the doors are open, but only hear the word; we can walk in the flesh and expect everything to go alright; we can live flippantly with God; we can walk without caution through life while the raging lion--the devil--seeks to tear you to pieces.

The last is going to be the main focal point of this entry. Though everything said is highly stressed.

We need to stop living as if we don't have an enemy. We need to stop living on cloud nine.

There are various things we can do to prevent attacks from Satan. And there are various things to do when attacked. But until we stop in our tracks, look around, and be vigilant we will constantly be a target for the devil.

If you found yourself in the zoo, hearing the nervous tone of the zoomaster over the intercom system announcing to everyone that the cage to the lion exhibit was broken and the lion had escaped, then you would drop that ice cream cone, forget about seeing the monkeys, and take off your sunglasses to peer around you. You will not be careless, you will not flail your arms in careless frivolousness as you walked to the snack bar.

So why do we do that in our spiritual lives? God has announced to us that there is a roaring lion walking about seeking whom he may devour. We may even have seen him prowling in the distance. But we turn our noses up into the air and go with out routine. How foolish!

We need God's presence, God's direction, God's protection. We need help from the Bible. We need help and wisdom from other Christians. We need our minds saturated with God. What are we reading, watching, listening to, being a part of? Is it God and His Kingdom and His desires? Or is it the devil's kingdom?
Even the purest of TV shows, music, or books can have adverse affects. Not because it is sin, but because it's not God.
A slice of apple pie isn't bad to eat. Having it every day, every meal, is bad. It's not poison, and it has some good elements to it, but it's not what sustains your life. When you eat your veggies and fruits, and when you drink you water and milk you will be far better that if you ate just apple pies.

Same with God. Just because you listen to classical music, watch 1960's TV shows, or read historical books(on man's first flight, for sake of illustration) doesn't mean you are living a right, victorious Christian life. It just means you're not drowning in poison.
But you're not getting the right stuff in your life. You're not saturating yourself with God. When you don't listen to His music, when you don't read about His love--or just Him--or when you don't watch how He is omnipotent, all-caring, or bearing victory...when you neglect God, then you are a sitting duck for Satan. You can't possibly expect to live a righteous, victorious life. You can't possibly expect to walk in the Spirit if you are walking in the flesh. You can expect to be pure if you are soaking up God's purity.


So pray. Read God's word. Learn His principles. Follow His word. Listen to His music. Know more about Him. Live as if you were in God's physical presence. Constantly push yourself to swim further in the ocean of God's love. It's one ocean you won't regret drowning in.


So, be sober. Be vigilant, because your adversary the devil is a roaring lion, walking about seeking whom he may devour.
Don't be foolish, but be wise. Walk circumspectly, with your head and eyes ever observant. Be a sponge and soak up God's love.

Lessons

2011 has been a very lesson-filled year. A lot of nuggets have been given to me.

To recap a few highlighted nuggets:

Flee idolatry--fly away from idolatry. God doesn't want us to simply run away from placing things above Him, but He wants us to run so fast it's like we are flying. He's that serious. He doesn't want us flirting with other lovers, lovers who won't satisfy and who bind us in a never-ending cycle of desiring love only to find artificial love. He wants to be number one in our lives, to be all we think about, to be all we love, to be all the reason we do things.

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God wants us to grow. And growth is rooted in love for God. And abiding in Christ bears us fruit(growth).
Lessons are given by God in variety of methods. But lessons don't make us grow. It is by applying the lessons we learn that we grow.

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Don't be anxious. And cast those worries and anxieties on Christ. It does us absolutely no good to get worked up over a situation. God knows all and sees all and can work things out accordingly to perfection--not us.

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Smile before you go crazy. I learned that scientifically, smiling releases endorphin or something into your brain, which causes you to be happy(ier). So the study went to show that if you make a habit of smiling, even if the situations are less that happy, you will become happy. So, before you become crazy from anxieties or sadness or whatever, SMILE!

There were so many lessons, so if you want, you can just go through this year's entries. The four things here are a few things that are still fresh in my mind, or that are stronger pressing. May God grant me the strength and determination to apply what I learn.

And may you also apply whatever God has taught you this year. Don't simply learn--apply; and grow.

Dams

In life we have rivers for different things. Love and hate, peace and worry, sin and righteousness. And they each flow to and fro our hearts; and it is somewhat of a cycle.

If love is unobstructed and flows in (and there is no dam against outflow), then there is a constant outflow of love. And the more love you channel into your heart, the more love can ebb outward.

Same applies with hate. If we don't dam the inflow of hate(nor dam the outflow of it), we have a constant stream of hatred. And if we channel more hate in, more hate comes out. But, if we try to dam the outflow without trying to dam the inflow, we have only one obstruction. As the inflow persists, the hate-level rises and the pressure on the outflow increases. However, if we dam both inflow and outflow, then the streaming of hatred shrinks and eventually dries up.

On the same note, we can dam up sin. By saying no to the flesh and desires we can dam the outflow of sin, of committing sin. There are two ways to do it, and both ways I think provide an obstruction. Damming the sin-channel flowing outward with your own strength and resources, and damming it with God's strength and resources. When we dam it by ourselves, it is thin, unfortified, and weak. As the inflow continues, our dam breaks frequently and quickly.

However, when we use God's resources in His strength then we can construct a dam that is stronger that the old one.

But, as stated in the case of hatred's channels, if we dam only one side, then the inflow will swell and create enormous pressure on the dam.

So, say we dam the outflow of sin(the committing of sin) with God's resources and God's strength; but we don't dam the inflow(thoughts, entertainment, friends, etc.). The current of sin will swell against the dam against the committing of sin and the pressure will be great and eventually the dam will break and burst forth with unyielding power. However, if we dam both sides, using God's power and equipment, then we have a greater chance of lasting longer without committing sin.

And on side note with that: Dams have cracks and because of that they need constant surveillance and repair. We may dam up the inflow and outflow of sin, but if we aren't mindful of the cracks(small leakage of sin) then eventually sin will work its way through the dam and destroy it. And when that happens, a fast-moving current will be unleashed.

So, build the dam against sin, both the inflow and outflow. Build it in God's power, with His resources. And keep watch over the dam. Don't ever think that because it is constructed you know longer have to worry about sinning. No, watch out for those cracks, those little instances of sin. Be quick to address it and repair it lest it become destruction for the rest of the dam.

Complacency

How have you grown this week? Have you applied anything you learned 2 weeks ago during the past week? Or have you been complacent? Are you apathetic? Is godliness a "it would be nice to have" thing to you, or is it vital, your lifeline? Do you live just to get through the day? Or do you live to live? Do you strive each day to grow closer to God? to know God more? to know your true self more? to stand in awe of God more?
Does God matter to you? Or is being saved enough? is knowing that you won't go to hell enough? ...Could one even call that redemption? We aren't saved to live however we want. God didn't send Jesus to live a life a rejection, of an outcast, He wasn't labeled an illegitimate child, spat upon, hated, despised, mocked so we can live how we want. He wasn't slapped, beaten, whipped, clubbed, pierced, crucified, put to open shame so we can live free to our own carelessness.

This isn't redemption. We are not free to live a careless, apathetic, complacent life. Salvation is freedom from sin, not freedom from God.

It's a punch in God's face...

Can we really live our day to day lives like the following:
Wake up
Facebook
School
Friends
Homework
TV
Video Games
Books

(Or for those of you who are living a more grown up life:
Wake up
Facebook/email
Chores
Friends
TV
Book
Work)
**Nothing in any particular order, though it could be in chronological**

Day in. Day out. A constant neglect of God. A constant complacency. A constant apathy.

Do you think God is pleased? Do you think he doesn't care? Do you think it's all right?

Galatians 4:18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

The last first talks about the Laodicean church, how they were lukewarm in their spirit. It was detestable to God. In this verse he tells them he loves them(hence his rebuke and chastening) and then commands them to be zealous. But, as an end tag, he instructs them to repent. From what? Apathy, complacency, living their lives under the cloak of "salvation" but not living salvation.

Reading the Bible to soothe your conscience is not living salvation. Praying for your meals, claiming that as your prayer time, is not living salvation. Going to church, singing the songs, ministering in the church is not living salvation.

Living salvation is diving into God's word. Reading until He speaks, and then continue that thought until you are drawn to change. (Note: The Bible is a mirror revealing your faults. Don't read the Bible with the faults of others in mind, hoping to shove a verse down their throat). Living salvation is taking that tugging, that drawing, and following it; it's applying what you learn. Living the rest of the day in light of that truth. Living the next day in that light. And the next day. And the next...

Living salvation is praying to know God. To express your devotion, your love, your praise, your admiration, your inferiority before His supremacy.

Living salvation is walking in the Spirit, bearing the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

It takes work. It takes thought. It takes action.

You can't go through your day and "just happen" to live salvation. No, you must make a conscious effort each moment. An purposeful action of walking in the Spirit, of delving into God's word.

It's easy to live with salvation's cloak. Just sit back, think about yourself, be conceited and envy others, provoke others. It's real easy. Just go through the motions. Don't think about the Bible when you read it. Think about what's for lunch tomorrow, or what your friends need, or who you miss, or...well, anything. Just not what's being said to you. That's how you become complacent. And then you become apathetic, lukewarm...detestable.

So, it's up to you. It's up to me.

God's calling us(again) to tear off the cloak of salvation and actually live it. He is calling us to be zealous--and to repent. He's calling us to live in the Spirit. He's calling us to abide in Christ. He's calling us to bear(not produce) the fruit of the Spirit.

But Satan also is calling us.

He's calling us to forget everything that was said in this entry. To forget about God when we wake up. To forget about God at noon. To forget about God after work or school. To forget about God as we're going to bed. He wants us to do as we wish. He wants us to bear foolishly the name of "redeemed," but not to bear the cross.


Your option. Your decision. God, or Satan.

Atheism

Have you found yourself realizing a failing in your Christian life regularly? What are you doing about it? Christianity is not a game; it is not fictitious. It's real. We are not saved to sit on our rears idly passing the time. We are not redeemed to forsake God. We are not forgiven to continue in our sin.

It's insanity to weekly, daily, hourly be reminded of a fault in us(not praying, not reading the Bible, not loving, not serving, not praising, not worshiping) and yet do nothing about it.

If we sit in our pews thinking "I know I have this problem, and I'm 'working on it'" we are fooling ourselves. Would God really convict us so much on the same matter if we are actually working to mend it?

Conviction is the moment decisions are made on how we will change. If we don't say yes to God and obey Him, we won't later un-convicted. It is so much easier to go through the day without prayer, without reading the Bible, without praising God, without loving. It's almost natural. It goes against the grain to do those things. That's why we won't if we aren't convicted.

We must act at the moment of conviction. We must cry out to God to impart His strength on us to resist the urge of being lazy in our Christian walk.

We hold up a defiant hand when we choose to deal with conviction later.

I don't know...maybe it's just me that has this dialog.
God: Get this right. You know you aren't doing your best--if any.
Me: I don't need to. I mean, I know it's a problem. I'm trying.


But am I really? Am I pushing past the laziness, the apathy, the whatever to actually live the Christian life?


To be saved and to deny the presence of God in our lives by living how we want(Not reading the Bible, not praying, not loving God and others, not praising God, not worshiping Him, etc) we are only living the Atheist life, not the Christian life. The atheist denies the existence of God. They see him as a mere man-made theology, a feel-good philosophical system.

We are living the atheist life if we live how we want to live. We deny the lordship of God if we don't love him (for he has commanded us to love him). We deny the lordship of God is we live for ourselves.

What has God been placing on your heart lately over and over again? Are you choosing not to pray to Him? Are you choosing to neglect reading the Bible? Are you rejecting the thought of loving others, of loving God? Are you resistant to His call in an area of service?

Think about it.

Everyone can improve how they live their Christian life, but do you even have one? I'm not asking if you are saved--that's another issue entirely. I'm asking if you have taken that step from simply being saved to living out your salvation? You can't improve something that isn't there.

So, answer your conscience. Do you have a Christian life? and are you living it?

Or have you abandoned God after being saved? Are you now living the Atheist life after taking the sonship of God?


This is something you can no longer ignore. You need to deal with it right now.

Just because you are a teenager, if you are, doesn't mean you are incapable of becoming so deaf and blind to God that he can no longer use you. Satan seeks to destroy and devour you. That's his goal; that's his ambition. He doesn't have to only resort to tempting you to committing murder, immorality, or bank-sized theft. He can simply sit back while you do the work of ignoring God, and then slowly(so you won't notice) begin hardening your heart, making you a little more deaf, a little more blind.

The longer you remain atheistic, the more he can harden your heart. And the more he can harder, the closer he is to totally destroying you(though God can always break the hardened heart, mend the broken heart, and bind you up in forgiveness and love.).

So stop, stop, stop thinking you can live however you want. You can't and get away with it. God is not interested or pleased in His children living the in the flesh. He is only pleased when they live in faith and in the Spirit.


Take a look at your life right now, ignore the friends around you, ignore the laundry that's buzzing at their finish, ignore the TV show that is starting. Are you living the Spirit-filled, Christian life? Are you praying? Are you reading the Bible? Are you loving?

Or are you living the Satan-filled, Atheist life? Are you praying to your idols(of self, of friends, of money, of entertainment, of boredom relief)? Are you opening the Bible maybe once a day out of a guilt-erasing act? Are you secretly, or not so secretly, hating those are you or even hating God?


Just as the Spirit is convicting me now, I'm sure He is convicting you now. So now is your chance to act. Now you can put behind you the past of born-again atheism. Now is the time you can pursue the true Christian life. Now you can put a pause to every idle distraction and pull out your Bible. Now is the time you can thank God for his love and enter into a praise session with Him.

I'll leave you with the repeated question. You do with it as you wish, God won't force your hand.
Are you living the Christian life? or are you living the Atheist life?
God's conviction is now if you are living the Atheist life. So take this moment to pursue Him. Live the Christian life now.

Adultery

I wonder…do we excite ourselves when we get the opportunity to talk to God? Do we feel lonely throughout the day if we go without talking to him? Do we ache with every moment we are away from Him? Do we smile broadly when we get a chance to talk to Him? Do we get giddy inside knowing He loves us, when we enter His presence, when we see Him through His word, his songs, his people?

Or, is he an acquaintance we met along the pathway of life that we couldn’t care less, really, if we never met again?

When we talk to a single person extensively for a long time and then suddenly we are without communication, we feel empty, pained. We miss their fellowship, we miss their laugh or their mannerisms or simply just them.

But…can we say we miss God if we go a day without talking to Him? Can we say we agonize over the neglect we might have in a day to spend time with Him? Is he the only thing on your mind when you are not talking to him? Do you anticipate greatly that moment when you can open up the Bible to hear His voice, or turn on the radio to hear his harmonies, or open your lips to speak to him?

Or are we adulterers and adulteresses? Have we found another lover? One that we foolishly think can satisfy whatever God cannot(But, alas! There is nothing pure that God cannot satisfy. He satisfies love, peace, hope, forgiveness, happiness).

Read Hosea sometime. I read it once, maybe twice, and am thinking of re-reading it again starting today. God tells Hosea to love and marry a prostitute. To love her despite her affections for various other men, despite having given herself to other men. All to demonstrate his love for us, the adulterers and adulteresses. He loves us despite our unfaithfulness. He loves us despite the fact we give ourselves to every other thing in hopes of gratifying our desires and love-void. We are made to love, and I believe we will seek different avenues to feel loved and demonstrate our love. But God doesn’t want us to find love in glittering things of our lives, or give our love to someone or something else other than Him.
He wants supremacy. He wants priority.

Stop living an adulterous life.