Choose to.. yes, learn to hate SIN to the same degree that God hates it because it destroys the people He loves. You.
It's not really an affair. It's destructive Adultery.It's not casual sex. It's destructive Fornication.
It's not gay love. It's destructive Sodomy.
It's not veneration. It's destructive Idolatry.
It's not pro-choice. It's destructive Murder.
It's not an exaggeration. It's destructive Lying.
It's not a true concern. It's destructive Gossip.
It's not just admiration. It's destructive Lust.
All sin hurts God, and all sin is against Him primarily. It's moronic to trivialize your sin as so many like to do. Please don't go there.
Here's what we'd do well to do instead go our own way. Repent, believe in, and follow Jesus.
So What's The Point of It All -- Being Here? Acceptable biblical worship.
Knowing and glorifying the Lord. We were not made for even the good gifts from God’s hands—but for God Himself.
Isaiah 43:7 — “Everyone who is called by My name, whom I created for My glory.”
Ephesians 1:12 — “That we…should be to the praise of His glory.”
Before we ever do anything for God, we are called to know Him, love Him, and live before Him.
Not performance—presence.
Not activity—adoration.
Not gifts—the Giver.
What Worship Really Is
Worship is not a song set—it is a surrendered life.
Romans 12:1 — “Present your bodies a living sacrifice…this is your spiritual worship.”
John 4:24 — “Worship…in spirit and truth.”
It is waking up and saying:
“Lord, today is Yours—my thoughts, my words, my choices.”
It is doing ordinary things—work, conversations, decisions—with an extraordinary aim:
1 Corinthians 10:31 — “Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
John Piper said it plainly:
“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.”
The Order We Must Not Reverse
We don’t worship to earn God—we worship because we’ve been given God.
Ephesians 2:8-9 — “By grace you have been saved through faith…”
It begins with repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, and only then flows into real worship.
Mark 1:15 — “Repent and believe the gospel.”
No Christ—no true worship.
No cross—no clean heart.
No surrender—no substance.
Why This Matters Right Now
We are living in a time where God is often treated as a means, not the end.
Barna research has consistently found that a large percentage of self-identified Christians do not hold a biblical worldview (often cited around only 6–9% of U.S. adults)—indicating a gap between belief and lived devotion. (Source: Barna Group studies on worldview, 2021–2023.)
In other words:
Many want blessings without repentance, change or surrender,
comfort without repentance,
religion without transformation.
But Scripture cuts through the noise:
Matthew 15:8 — “This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.”
The Hard Truth About Sin (and the Better Hope)
All of us have sinned, but there's a Solution and He has a name. Jesus. Sin is not harmless—it is soul-destroying.
Romans 6:23 — “The wages of sin is death.”
What culture renames, God still calls sin—
not to shame us, but to save us from what destroys us.
But here is the hope:
1 Corinthians 6:11 — “Such were some of you…you were washed.”
Billy Graham once said:
“God never takes anything away from your life without replacing it with something better.”
A Short Lyrical Reflection
Not for the gifts, but for Your face,
Not for the crown, but for Your grace,
Not for the healing—though we plead,
But for Yourself, our deepest need.
Take all the world, its shining lies,
Its fleeting joys, its loud disguise—
Give me the Christ who bled for me,
My life, my hope, my eternity.
Psalm 73:25 — “Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You.”
The Simple, Unshakable Call
Live focused on Christ. Sure, we live to know, worship (yep, it's priority one, pray and obey), to seek, to please, to walk with, to praise, to obey and enjoy the Lord and everything else is secondary. The Blesser is way better than His blessings, His presence beats all His presents. ~ kvs
Seek Him and His will first.
Walk with Him.
Obey Him.
Enjoy Him.
Everything else is secondary.
Hebrews 11:6 — “He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
Final Word
This is not complicated—but it is costly:
Die to self.
Turn from sin.
Trust Christ fully.
Live for His glory alone.
And in losing your life—you will finally find it.
Luke 9:24 — “Whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.”
here to orbit our lives around lesser things. We were made for God Himself—personally, deeply, daily.
To know Him, to walk with Him, to worship Him in spirit and truth (John 4:23), to love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30)—this is not one priority among many. It is the center that gives meaning to everything else.
Everything else—work, family, success, even ministry—must take its rightful place beneath that one blazing reality:
God is not a means to our life; He is our life (Colossians 3:4).
The Great Reversal We Must Resist
Our age has quietly inverted this truth. Many seek God for what He gives, not for who He is. Yet Scripture calls us higher:
“Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You.” (Psalm 73:25)
The psalmist doesn’t say, “God gives me what I desire.”
He says, “God Himself is my desire.”
This is the turning point of real Christianity.
A.W. Tozer captured it plainly:
“The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One.”
And the old hymn echoes the same truth:
“Thou, O Christ, art all I want, more than all in Thee I find.”
The Blesser Over the Blessings
We must learn this quietly but firmly:
The Blesser is infinitely better than His blessings.
His lasting presence is greater than His temporal presents.
Moses understood this when he prayed:
“If Your presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.” (Exodus 33:15)
He had seen miracles, power, provision—but none of it satisfied him without God Himself.
This is where shallow faith either matures—or collapses.
The Simplicity of a God-Centered Life
Strip everything down, and the Christian life becomes beautifully simple:
- Know Him — not just facts, but fellowship (Philippians 3:10)
- Seek Him — early, intentionally, continually (Psalm 63:1)
- Walk with Him — moment by moment (Micah 6:8)
- Obey Him — not selectively, but sincerely (John 14:15)
- Delight in Him — not out of duty alone, but desire (Psalm 37:4)
Everything else becomes secondary—not meaningless, but rightly ordered.
A Quiet Warning
It is possible to build a full life and still miss the central thing.
Church activity without intimacy.
Service without surrender.
Truth without tenderness toward God.
Jesus warned:
“You have left your first love.” (Revelation 2:4)
Not abandoned truth—
not abandoned service—
but abandoned Him at the center of it all.
A Simple Illustration
Think of a man who marries for love—but over time becomes more interested in the benefits of marriage than in his wife herself. The home remains, the structure stands, but the relationship quietly thins.
That is what happens when we love God’s gifts more than God.
A Needed Return
So we come back—again and again—to first things:
To open His Word not just to learn, but to meet Him.
To pray not just to ask, but to commune.
To worship not just in song, but in surrender.
As John Piper rightly said:
“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.”
A Fresh Reflection
You were made for one supreme purpose:
to know the Lord deeply,
to walk with Him closely,
to worship Him acceptably,
to delight in Him continually.
Everything else will either serve that purpose—or distract from it.
So choose the better portion.
Choose the presence.
Because in the end,
When you have Jesus as Lord, you have not lost anything worth keeping at all—and you have gained everything worth having.
You were made for God the Son. He's the Bridegroom and the Church is his bride. Yes, you were made for God—and until that settles deep in the soul, everything else quietly competes for His place.
