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Written by LaRosa Johnson
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
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Can we really love God without really loving what He loves? Let me put it another way, Can we truthfully say that we love God if we enjoy thing that He doesn't enjoy? I found a great blog posting that addresses this issue.
 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)...
LaRosa Johnson is the founder of Trailblazin Ministries. He and his wife Robin, and their three children currently reside just northeast of Austin, TX where he works for a
Christian software company called WORDsearch as an e-book developer. Larosa is also currently training as a pastor-teacher at Austin Bible Church.
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