Enmity toward God and self-love of others

"The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
but the prayer of the upright is His delight" Prov. 15:8

The love of human beings for self is the moral governor
in the soul and is nothing but the height of idolatry
in its enmity toward God.

The person that is at enmity with God in all that he does
may be the nicest of human beings as far as other people
can tell.

That person that is so sweet may go to prayer meetings
and plead with God for the physical and emotional well-being
of others and perhaps even for the salvation of others, but
without love in that persons soul those prayers go unanswered
and are at enmity with God.

In the modern world self-love is considered a necessity to get by
and even to be morally correct. The necessary consequence of supreme
self-love, however, is enmity with God. The Greatest Commandment
is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength.

Then any love for self or for our neighbor must flow from a love
for Him. Any love of self that does not flow from a primary love
of Him is idolatry and is clearly to be at enmity with Him. The supreme
love of a human being is to be reserved for God and for Him alone.

Scripture tells us this in other words as well: "If anyone comes to Me,
and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and
brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple"
Luke 14:26

Surely this verse requires a supreme love to God in all things
and shows us how easy it is to fall into idolatry. It is so easy
to love family and friends simply from a love for self and think
that we have true love. When we think we have true love, we
think that we have God and so use our idolatrous love of others
to confirm us in our sin. In other words, it is very easy to use
our enmity with God as a ''biblical'' reason to justify ourselves
into thinking we have love.

The Bible commands people to honor their fathers and mothers.
However, one cannot truly love them apart from having the Spirit
who works the fruit of love in the soul and one cannot truly love them
apart from loving God with the whole being. Yet when a person has
been raised in a family where the people are knit together is some
close way it is very easy to think that they have true love for each other.

True love must always come through knowing Him personally and through
a personal relationship where Christ rules the roost, not where self runs the show.

Are you still making decisions before Him?

This must stop inorder for Jesus to rule and rein over your body. Keep yourself honest before
our risen Lord and stop before it's too late. Amen