Love God!

Mama taught me young ladies don’t spit! Of course, I tried to teach this to my guys but with little success. Spittin’ seems to be a favorite past time for boys and [seemingly] a necessary part of ball playing. Finally, I resolved if they were going to spit, they should be good spitters! I’m not a judge of good spitters but if practice-makes-perfect, I suppose they’re the best!

For what reason were you last spittin’ mad? Charles Spurgeon writes, “There can hardly be goodness in a man if he be not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way.” Tempted by Satan in the wilderness, Jesus showed disdain for pretentious (exaggerated) truth. Finally, Jesus had enough and rebuked “Be gone, Satan.” Spurgeon adds, “Warm as is His love to sinners, so hot is His hatred of sin.” Christians tend to overlook a great yet simple truth: we cannot be friends with the world and friends with God, “whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” (James 4:4). It troubles me we’ve become callous to sin and [at times] incapable of calling sin what it is … sin. How can we with spiritual conscience embrace sin when it was sin Christ took upon Himself then bore the full wrath of Almighty God! Quite frankly, Christians are known by their love for God and His righteous ways. Scripture tells us “The Lord knoweth them that are His: and, let everyone that nameth the Name of the LORD depart from unrighteousness.” (2 Timothy 2:19). We don’t have to take up spittin’ but we will genuinely love God when we hate what is evil and cling to what is good (Psalm 97:10). Let us no longer delay … love God!