Just as you served your old master of sin with all of your heart, soul, and mind, so now present all that you are to your new Master. How much more so, in that the old master was a tyrant and the new Master is love.
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. – John 14:23
To refuse God is to refuse His kindness to us. To refuse His mercy.
Where are you running to for refuge, to Mount Sinai or Mount Zion?
Hebrews 12:14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
Psalms 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! (24) And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell. – Matthew 5:30
How sad it is that people will trade their soul for some ordinary desire, just like Esau traded his for a bowel of soup.
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. – Galatians 6:14