Divided Loyalties

We love God, but we also love the pleasures of this world too much. This divided loyalty compromises our integrity and impact.

No one can have the best of both worlds, because there aren’t two worlds. There is only God’s reality and our failed attempts to make our own reality.

Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. (1 John 2:15-17 MSG)

In our art and our lives, we have to quit striving for the world’s approval and trying to adapt to the world’s ways in order to get ahead. It is a counterfeit narrative that will never work. Because it has nothing to do with God’s reality.

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