ENEMY OF GOD
Today's reading: Ezekiel 38-39, James 4:1-5:6, Proverbs 21:19-24

"You adulterers! Don't you realize that friendship with this world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again, that if your aim is to enjoy this world, you can't be a friend of God." James 4:4 NLT

What are your goals for this life?

To be rich and famous, accumulating wealth and possessions along the way to the grave?

To live a life of ease and comfort, never suffering, never needing to complain until death steals you away quietly and peacefully in your sleep?

To gather funds and resources that will leave your children, their children and their children never wanting for a thing?

Or is it to be like Jesus?

To want what He wanted--to do the Father's will.

To desire that lost sheep be brought to the Good Shepherd.

To have a drive to see souls saved from the pits of hell.

To know this world is not your home, heaven awaits.

We can't love this world and serve God--it won't work.

If we do this Christian thing right, we aren't going to fit in.

We won't be famous in the eyes of the majority of society.

We probably won't amass wealth for use on this planet.

We might not be liked, understood or listened to.

But how we live will determine whose friend we are, the world's or God's.