1 Corinthians 10:20 · World English Bible
But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.
No sacrifice lands in a vacuum. When a man lays his time, his attention, his loyalty on some altar, he feeds whatever sits there, and the thing he feeds grows strong enough to shape him back.
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No sacrifice lands in a vacuum. When a man lays his time, his attention, his loyalty on some altar, he feeds whatever sits there, and the thing he feeds grows strong enough to shape him back. The pagan thought he served nothing. He served the appetite he had enthroned.
Whatever you commune with, you become. Sit down at the table of resentment or contempt often enough and you take on their character, because participation is never neutral. The warning is blunt. Aim your devotion at the highest thing you can conceive, or you will worship something lower without noticing.
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What have I been giving my attention to, and what has it been making me into?
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