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28 Apr, 9 tweets, 2 min read

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one & love the other; or else he will hold to the one & despise the other.” -Matt. 6:24

We all worship something. If God is dwelling on the periphery of our hearts, it’s likely something else is already enthroned there.

Worship begins as admiration & becomes adoration. We then invite that thing to enter & make its home in our souls where it can banish other kings & change who we are. There’s only room for one monarch. All other members of “court” either serve that monarch or suffer expulsion.

Some in the Church toy with a democratic system of personal loyalty—that God is more a member of the parliamentary body of Self than a king. With their own feeble intellects, they fill additional seats w/ other worshipped idols that may not always agree with his ways.

While God has declared us temples, they declare themselves embassies of varied ideas, themselves diplomats of the world intellect. God’s will still falls below their own, he being but an occupier of one seat in the cabinet. It’s a deliciously modern system. And an elaborate lie.

Democracies are for men—a necessary component of the Plan of Salvation, allowing each to choose good or evil for himself, unobstructed by governmental compulsion, culminating in individual accountability. It’s imperfect in that evil thrives too. But it best serves God’s purposes.

God is no democratically-elected president. He is no administrator. He is King—not *a* king, THE King—of everyone & everything. The universe obeys him. He is perfect in justice, mercy, & goodness. There are no second opinions upon his perfect will, because none are required.

Such will be the government of this world when Christ returns. For now, he seeks to occupy his throne in our hearts by the power of the Holy Ghost. We are not parliaments, we are temples. We have not U.N. seats to fill, but one throne—one seat for that being we anoint our deity.

Those who withhold their loyalty from the Lord & bargain for shared position upon the throne—for themselves, for anyone else, any other cause or personal affinity incongruent with his ways—have misunderstood the plan & have need of repentance. No man can serve two masters.

When anything we adore competes w/ the Lord’s ways, that thing is an idol to us. It seeks our servitude & wld have us demote him. It promises a reciprocation of joys it has no means nor authority to supply. God is not asking to be your king. He is your king. Worship none else.

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