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Psalm 78:59-64
When God heard them, he was furious;
he rejected Israel completely.
He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,
the tent he had set up among humans.
He sent the ark of his might into captivity,
his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
He gave his people over to the sword;
he was furious with his inheritance.
Fire consumed their young men,
and their young women had no wedding songs;
their priests were put to the sword,
and their widows could not weep.
Israel became so indifferent to the things of God that he allowed the Ark of the Covenant - the sign of his presence with them - to be captured by the Philistines. A child born that day was named Ichabod - meaning "the Glory has departed" (1 Samuel 4:21). Because God is holy, sin separates us from the presence of God (Isaiah 59:2). Even in Christians whose sins are pardoned, Jesus finds spiritual halfheartedness as nauseating to him as uncooked food. "Because you are....neither hot nor cold....I....spit you out of my mouth" (Revelation 3:16). Have you become nonchalant toward sin in your life because you sat, "God is love"? God does love you, and that is why he will not support you in living apart from him.
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