When We Don't Give God Our All
When we aren't giving God our all, we abdicate our human responsibility and leave our lives open to the use and abuse of almost anyone else. Plus, we become jerks. Look at what happens to some random guys in Luke 20 who failed to give God their all. (Oh, how do we know they weren't giving God their all? Jesus tells them in verse 25, we'll get there). First, they become tools of the religious leaders. Notice how they were "sent" and nameless. Faceless drones carrying out the whims of religious hypocrites. Luke 20:19–20 (ESV) 19 The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people. 20 So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor. Second, we act differently than we really are! Notice the words, the...