Why God Hates Love Triangles

Today wasn’t your typical Taco Tuesday.  While my friend Brad Smith and I set out in search of some Mexican food we couldn’t help but notice something was different. There were extra exclamation points on Facebook.  There were lines of people outside the movie theater.  We quickly realized the latest Twilight movie, Eclipse, comes out at midnight and teenage girls all across Orange County are excited.

It seems there is a love triangle between a vampire and a werewolf and plenty of young women would like to find themselves in the middle of it.

When the last Twilight movie came out, I actually went to see it and I did a special sermon at True North.  By doing this I learned two things:

#1 – There is no way in this world I will be going to see this next Twilight movie!

And #2 – God Hates Love Triangles

– Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.

Now I know Twilight is just a movie, but this verse is serious.  God is jealous.  His beloved people are cheating on him.  He says in the verse before that he cannot endure how they assemble to worship and are in sin at the same time!  Their hearts are divided between two loves and God hates it!

The truth is jealousy is an attribute of God all of the time.  We’ve been reading this in Hosea on SOTD.  In the New Testament Jesus says the #1 commandment is to love the Lord with all your heart!  He won’t settle for competing with someone else for our affections.

Let’s make sure that God has our whole heart!  We’ll be talking about this tomorrow at Beach Night and here’s the New Moon sermon from the last Twilight movie if you want to listen to it:

Seek God first, nothing else second!