you will love one and hate the other... always.

As much as I and I know so many of us wish, it is impossible to love this world and love Christ.

The very first level of Christianity is the denial of all of your desires (things of this world) and giving yourself completely to Christ. No one can serve two masters, you will hate one and love the other.. every time. True love for the Lord means true hatred for sin. In Matthew 7 and Luke 13, Jesus says, "many will be telling Him on that day that He is actually the Lord of their life but He will say to them, depart from me for I never knew you." How much that breaks my heart! That so many of us have in our mind that heaven is where we are headed, but really think about it.. Is the owner of heaven your best friend? Have you told him all about yourself? How close is your relationship?

So, how long would it take you to walk up to an apple tree and with apples all over it, for you to say that the tree is an apple tree? A good tree can not bare bad fruit and a bad tree can not bare good fruit, that's what Jesus said. This concept is perfectly described in one of my favorite verses. Jesus said, I am the vine and you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him bares much fruit. For without Me, you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and will wither and die. They will gather them and throw them into the fire. I know this is an abstract view; imagine, what do you think your fruit is like? What kind of fruit do you bear?

So that seems to be the main question, who rules your life? Because like stated before one will always prevail. Is it Christ or the enemy?