Don't gloss over the wickedness of sin. HOWEVER, you must not gloss over the richness of God’s love, either. Dwell on it here.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
John3:16
"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
II Peter 3:9
It is important that we do not try to exclude God from certain areas of our lives. God demands faithfulness and His view of faithfulness is pretty extreme. In God’s opinion, “faithful” means 100% faithful. (Deuteronomy 7:9)
We have a tendency to adopt a very worldly attitude about our labor. Even though we work for wages – even though we say that we “earn a living” – everything we have that’s any good is really a gift from God. (Ecclesiastes 5:18)
In Chapters 4 and 5 of Ecclesiastes Solomon examined earthly institutions and came to the following conclusions:
The government: corrupt
The economy: unbalanced
Church: vain