For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. Deut. 7:6
You adulterers and adulteresses. Don't you know that whoever is a friend of the world is the enemy of God?
Isn't it fun to observe a couple right before they get married? When they are in a room together, no one else exists. They have eyes only for each other. Their thoughts are consumed with the other person. They will do anything to please their soon-to-be spouse. I have never heard an engaged girl ask if it would be okay to go out with other guys once in a while, or if she couldn't at least keep someone else's picture and email him once a week. The idea of it is preposterous.
So it is with us and God. He set his love on us. He chose us to be his treasure, to enter into a covenant relationship with us. He wants this relationship to be more intimate than any other relationship we can experience. No wonder he calls us adulterers and adulteresses when we want the world's approval rather than his. When we keep asking "why can't I do this?" "Do I have to do that?"
Our unwillingness to be separated, to be his holy, treasured possession, shows that we really are not in love with God.
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