And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
1 Samuel 7:3 ESV
I can't love God and the distractions that I've brought into my life. As long as I give distractions a stronghold the longer I will be oppressed by them. Putting them aside makes room in my heart and my mind for service to the Lord and deliverance from sin.
What is Becoming The Redeemed?
The journey of a man once dead in his own sin now redeemed and on his way to becoming who God has called him to be.