Adulterous People

James 4:4

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 

Adultery.. Not being faithful to the one that you have committed yourself to. Usually used in a marriage situation as having any kind of connection with another person that would be considered unfaithful in a relationship. Any kind of emotional or sexual relationship outside of the sacred covenant of marriage... Also used as putting something before the one that you commit yourself to.... Are we adulterous people? Christian, are you adulterous? Though this word usually means in a marriage, I am referring to you and God. Does anything ever come before God in your life? Have you violated the sacred covenant between you and God and allowed something or someone else to come into the picture? Have you altogether replaced Him with another passion? Or even further, have you ever truly had a passion for God? Last question, do you love the world and your sin and yourself or ANYTHING ELSE more than God? 

We are told throughout scripture that God is a jealous God, He loves His children, that He desires to have an intimate relationship with us, where we are, so that we can become the masterpiece that He designed us to be. Are we seeking Him like we ought to or are we content with just being half in the world and half with God? Well first of all, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BEING HALF FOR GOD AND HALF FOR THE WORLD!!!! God, Himself, says that “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” (Matthew 6:24a)... Who is it that you serve? What is it that has been stealing ANY of your heart away from God? What is it that is DRIVING you? Is it success, your friends, a relationship, a job, laziness, a sport, school, Facebook, Hollywood’s productions, your sin, an image, a position, or anything else? What is the thing that gets you up in the morning and gets you through the day? Do you feel that sin is impossible to beat and that you can’t get through a day without it? First of all, with GOD anything is possible (Philippians 4:13), but that involves that you put in effort to get out of it also, not that you halfheartedly say you want to escape. Secondly, if you can’t get through a day without sin, but can go weeks without the Bible, what does that say about who you serve? ANYTHING THAT IS STEALING YOUR HEART AWAY FROM GOD NEEDS TO HAVE LESS OR NO PRIORITY.  Even ministry can steal our hearts away from God. So often we can find ourselves serving, not because we want to serve our King and please Him and bring Him glory, but because it is the “Christian thing to do” or because we have to. When this attitude occurs, how can we expect God to use us, when we have lost sight of Him? How can we expect Him to work in us, if we have replaced Him? Family, are we an adulterous people? 

If we find that we are an adulterous person, how do we escape? First of all, you must identify what is replacing God in your life. Secondly, if you don’t have a desire to reduce its role in your life, cry out to God that He would give you that passion. Third, do whatever it takes to get right with God and back on track with your walk. Family, this is a tough process, I find myself needing to do this all the time. This is a personal struggle of mine all the time. It is so easy to become content in your walk, to become unwilling to grow, to become too busy for God. We allow things and other people to gain more time in our schedules and more prominent roles in our life without allowing our God and Father any more time, and usually take the time that we did have with Him away. We go to church, willing to develop a passion for Him, we worship at His feet, then wake up the next morning and forget about our Creator. We don’t cherish time that we can spend with Him. We constantly tell God that our agendas, our relationships, our sin is more important to us then He is. Family, this is sin. This is a place that we should desire to leave and never return to. We separate ourselves from our Father and become melancholy about our relationship with Him. Family, this is going to be a life long struggle, but how we respond to it now, shapes how we respond to it the rest of our life. Today is the day to restore ourselves with our Lover, our Creator, our Master. Let’s not be an enemy of the most High God. Let’s be the people He loves and that love Him back and are ambassadors of Him to this world...

Even our core should be fully devoted to this relationship with God, not just our actions... No more adultery, no more contentment. Just devotion to Him. 

Blessings