Being a Friend of the World, Part 1 (TMF:2106)

Monday, June 05, 2023
Peace to Live By: Being a Friend of the World, Part 1 (TMF:2106) - Daniel Litton
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       Certainly, there are all kinds of ‘external’ ways we can be a friend of the world and then find ourselves an enemy of God. We can have bad thoughts toward our brothers or sisters, be angry with them, be jealous of them, compare ourselves incessantly with them on Facebook. We can speak malicious things about them, we can say things that aren’t true, and we can believe the worst about them. We can choose to see ourselves as totally awesome, as having arrived at a good, enduring faith, as having no need to grow, as being better than most, as being better than this guy, or that guy. We can not listen to what our mom or dad tells us, we can act like total fools, we can not care about how our actions affect others, we can not show sympathy when sympathy is needed. We can never read our Bibles, hardly go to church, not spend time with any Christians, not spend time with God, forget to pray, and even choose to not believe in God anymore altogether. How is it, then, that we don’t make ourselves an enemy of God, but rather make ourselves God’s friend?