Love of Sin

So this title can probably be pretty confusing as the beginning to what I am about to say. But the real question I want to get at is... do we love God as much (or more) than we love our sin. Think about it, your sin is a culmination of a couple things: a) your desires and passions miscontrued or in excess so that it is unhealthy and takes away from God b) a rebellion against God and a selfish way of going about things c) temptation to indulge yourself in what you find pleasurable (OK, the temptation isn't actual sin, but it does lead to it).

Really what I am saying is that our sin tends to take up most of our lives. What we indulge in unhealthily especially in North American society tends to take up our time and effort. What WE want to do and where WE want to go is the only option. Our individualistic thinking gets us to do the things that we want to do, and shows us what we truly love. it is common knowledge that if you want to know what a man truly values, you look at where he spends his time. Yet, we tend to spend most of our time sitting in things that do not matter, or in sinful things. Most of our time is not spent in/or even with God. Or even with the knowledge that God is there! So how can we say that we love God more than we love our sinful indulgences, when we are more willing to give time to those indulgences than God? It seems like a tough thing to handle, and it definitely is, but I think until we can say that we are willing to give more time to God and less time to our sinful thoughts, attitudes, and actions I think it shows what we truly love more. I think that this can be a depressing thought, but it is not meant to be that way there is definitely hope.

Because you see God understands that, he understands that unless we have him our lives are ruled by sin. And he has given us a way out of that. Not so that we can feel okay about sinning, but because we now have the opportunity to love him more than we love our sin. We are not bound to our sin any longer because we have the option of ridding ourselves of that sin and choosing instead to love God. It is something that is not always easy. But I challenge whoever reads this, the next time your in a situation where you are tempted and feel like you are in a place where you are going to sin with something you are struggling with. Ask yourself the question, am I going to indulge myself and choose to love myself and this sin, or am I going to choose to love God in this moment and turn away from this. I think it is not always an easy thing to do but I think it can be rewarding. We need to be continually praying that we can find ways to love God, because there is so much we could do, but the more we do it I think the easier it is to turn from sin and choose to love God more than that sin in our lives.