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Hard question October 25, 2021 · 26:17 · 2 min

Ask 'does God want me to do this?' — and the sweet-then-bitter scroll

The hosts take up the article's proposal that a surrendered life asks 'does God want me to do this?' instead of 'is it okay if I do this?' One host admits that line of thinking once turned him away from Christianity for years through hyper-scrutiny of every move. The other connects it to Revelation's eating-the-scroll passage — God's word is sweet going in, then bitter when you realize you're not living it — and to how a good movie or song with a bad message turns bitter in his soul, leaving him folding laundry in silence instead of scrolling Netflix.

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