
The Joy of Loving God – Part 2
Worship is best offered with feeling. So what do your feelings toward God, and the expression of those emotions, say about the condition of your heart?
Worship is best offered with feeling. So what do your feelings toward God, and the expression of those emotions, say about the condition of your heart?
Sin provides my greatest satisfaction apart from God. Sin is fun…for a time (Hebrews 11:25). It meets my fleshly desires. It gives me control. I think thoughts I want to think. I savor emotions that meet my needs. I do the things I want to do. Sin is all about me and all about me wanting to be in control.
Kent Chavalier—Chaplain of the Pittsburgh Steelers—talks about dealing with identity and fear, areas where men struggle, how to break through those barriers, and how he was invited to become the Chaplain of the Steelers.
We all experience anger…sometimes for good, sometimes in sin. And sometimes it hurts…it hurts others, it hurts us and it hurts those we love.
It was going to be a tough meeting. Those sitting around the table had some serious issues with each other. You could feel the tension—so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying goes. I knew this time together could blow up in my face. If it ended with me having to make a judgment, someone would leave the church. I also knew no one in the room was squeaky clean on this one. So, I began by reading Ephesians 4:32.