The Nothing Blog

Worship Leader Grace Balint sings "I Got Saved" Sisters, we've been warned countless times in Scripture. We are in a spiritual battle every day while we're on planet earth. We have an evil enemy. He is also God's enemy.  He can only lie. But God will only speak all-powerful, lifesaving truth.  "God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that he should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?" (Numbers 23:19). "My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My hand" (John 10:29). The battle lines were physically drawn in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. We are  warned by God that the serpent, or literally the devil, is more crafty than any other beast of the field that God had made." (Genesis 3:1). That's a red flag. Right?  Okay, we have been warned he's like a snake! And please tell me who has ever heard a snake ...

Worship Leader Grace Balint sings "Stronger"  Anyone else seeing that social media can easily become a megaphone for luring us into people pleasing ? How many likes do you have? How many filters did you use on that photo? Does your house look that good all the time? And so on. Where is our focus? Us? Others? What about Jesus who tells us to be the light of the world -- not  be in the spotlight of the world. In Scripture people pleasing is called the fear of man , in Scripture. "Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe" (Proverbs 29:25). Why is it a snare? We want the approval and affirmation of others and we will never be satisfied by that sinful craving because others are as sinful and moody we are! So if we're living for the approval of people we're not free, we're in bondage. We're not looking to God, we're looking to people to be our god. It's called idolatry. It's called having unrealistic ex...