Be careful with your prayer language. Dear Lord, be with Sally today as she goes to work and be with all of our missionaries. Newsflash. When is God NOT with us? You might as well pray that water will be wet.
Keep an accurate view of God. I don’t care how cool you think it is but I am disgusted when I see “God kicks a**!” Our concept of God is so weak at times that we think it is hip and vogue to speak of Him like he is a hipster from the skanky side of town. Yo, God loves me and like, yo, I’m all into Jesus. So often we think that He likes what we like, is ambivalent to what we tolerate, and hates what we hate. He wasn’t created in our image- is that so hard to grasp? God is holy. Those in the presence of God sing of his holiness (not “love, love, love” or “omnipotence, omnipotence, omnipotence”). There is a serious danger of being too familiar with God… ever hear one of those Jesus Is My Boyfriend songs?
I am rather sick of hypocritical, lazy, spineless believers.
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