Easy Rider


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...Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Worldly ease is a great foe to faith; it loosens the joints of holy valour, and snaps the sinews of sacred courage.
- Charles Spurgeon
Friendship with the world is when we choose to make an unholy alliance with carnal things over and above our relationship with God. To be entangled with the trappings of this life at the expense of our fellowship with God is an unfruitful and dangerous place to reside. All followers of Christ are vunerable to this trap simply because we are in this world...but not of it.


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woe to you who are at ease in Zion...
 The only benefit that I can see from the accumulation of worldy goods, wealth, and treasure is to have more to give for the cause of Christ. Otherwise...padding our life with earthly comforts can lead to pride and rebellion. Striving for DEPENDENCE is more suited for serving Him. Dependent on the help of God; the Holy Spirit of God; the grace of God and dependent upon the word of God. Faith and trust in anything or anyone outside of the Holy Trinity weakens our trust in the LORD. 

To be at ease in today's world is to be out of touch spiritually. Surrounded by darkness and with the enemy on the prowl we fall prostrate before Jehovah seeking His guidance and protection. Herein is inward peace; at ease only when sheltered in the shadow of His wings.  

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