The Price of Self-Obsession

“I am the LORD. There is no other God.” Isaiah 45:18

We pay a high price for…self-obsession. “God isn’t pleased at being ignored” (Rom. 8:8 MSG). Paul speaks of sinners when he describes those who “knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God…So God let them go ahead and do whatever shameful things their hearts desired” (Rom. 1:21, 24 NASB).

You’ve seen the chaos.
The husband ignoring his wife.
The dictator murdering the millions.
Grown men seducing the young. The young propositioning the old.
When you do what you want, and I do what I want, and no one gives a lick as to what God wants, humanity implodes. The infection of the person leads to the corruption of the populace…

Extract God; expect earthly chaos and, many times worse, expect eternal misery.

Originally printed in Come Thirsty by Max Lucado