Today has been a really good day. I had an eye appointment this morning (yay contacts!), got my hair cut (well trimmed really), and had a pretty good pre-calculus class this afternoon. And to start it all off, I woke up to maybe 3-4 inches of snow! :)
I read through the book of James today, which is one of my all time favorite books of the Bible. In just 5 chapters, you can learn so much. I'd highly suggest you guys go read it if you haven't in a while. Something that caught my eye was in chapter 4 verses 4-5 which says, "You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, 'He yearns jealously over the spirit that He has made to dwell in us'?" So we either hate the world and love Jesus, or hate Jesus and love the world. There's no in between. If we truly love God, our lives should look like we hate the world. Not in the sense that we hate people of the world, but this isn't our home. We don't belong here. This life here is nothing compared to eternity.
It says in the next verse "He yearns jealously over the spirit He has made to dwell in us". Jesus wants our hearts. He wants us to be with Him. He is jealous for us! He can't stand it when He's not all we want; when He's not the only one we're worshiping. So we can't have both. We can't have the world and Jesus. But after I've got a glimpse of Christ, why would I want earthly things anyway? I can say that but what is my attitude, my actions, really telling people? Do I live like I really hate the world? Do I live like all I want; all I need is Christ?
Exodus 34:14 "For thou shalt worship no other god; for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God."
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