Emphasis Preaching Journal

We want you ... but we don't want you. We want you to rip open the heavens and be righteously angry ... but we don't want you to be angry at us. It's like little Sam: "Do you want applesauce or peaches for dinner, Sam?" "I want both!" "Do you want to watch television or help me make cookies, Sam?" "I want both!" "Do you want this white shirt or this blue shirt, Sam?" "I want both!" We can't have both, even though that's what we really want. We want to be serious adults, but we really just want to have a good time. We want to go to church, but we don't want to change our lives.