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Loving What God Hates?

Written by LaRosa Johnson
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Filed under: Faith, Life, Ramblings

Yesterday my friend and I had a chop up (time of fellowship) with some brothers from San Antonio. Towards the end of the day, we were just chilling at my boy's crib and sharing our hearts and things that were on our heart concerning the Scriptures. One of the brothers brought up the topic of taking pleasure in those things that we know God hates, especially in regard to the kinds of entertainment we enjoy. It has come to the point where we are completely desensitized to evil where we don't even respond in the right way. How is that believers can sit down and watch blatant fornication/adultery or murder and find pleasure and enjoyment in it? How is it that we can sit down and honestly find enjoyment in such things?

I've heard the argument before that it may be sin for you, but not for me. Indeed, in some cases, that is Scriptural and correct, but I don't think that really stands in this instance. How can we willingly sit down and choose to expose ourselves to sinful acts? The same goes for music; how can we find enjoyment listening to an artist talking about cheating on his girl or some other sin?

I don't really have much more to say; I just want you to ponder on that and think about the entertainment you're allowing yourself to enjoy. Are they the things that we know for a fact God hates? (And know that I've assessed myself before presenting this to you, and I had to do some house cleaning)...

Comments (4)

George Sly wrote:
on June 30, 2008 9:15 AM

What a great point LJ?!? What part of dying to yourself do we not understand? Keep at this man.

Garrett wrote:
on July 1, 2008 12:40 PM

Love it man keep it up. I've actually been talking about this with my peers that don't seem to understand, but I'm going to post this on my blog so they can see your point, if that's cool.

LaRosa Johnson wrote:
on July 1, 2008 12:45 PM

Feel free brother :-)

lj.

Ariel wrote:
on July 12, 2008 11:23 AM

I feel ya brother, some people say if they don't feel conviction its ok but seem to forget that before being saved they never felt conviction of the horrible sins they committed. Like Phanatik said in the CM song "All Day" "God is not a part of our everyday happenings, the raps we sing, the films we watch, the lies we live (on top of that) men's prerogative, and we like it like that...."

We need to hate this world and hate our lives... Amen