WE WILL END UP IMMORAL…

WE WILL END UP IMMORAL… when human beings reject godly moral uprightness as our guiding light for all our conduct. The moment we begin to become immoral, we open ourselves for every other evil. When we open ourselves to every kind of evil, then we are welcoming our destruction with open arms. The world we live in today is not only embracing immorality as the choice of our hearts, but is actually wholeheartedly welcoming every form of evil.
– “Evil does not always appear openly destructive. It may come through false teaching, immoral practices, deceitful influence, or compromises that seem harmless. Christians must exercise discernment and reject evil wherever it appears…Evil opposes God’s character and corrupts human life. The command…[is for us]…to test [all] what is heard and hold fast to [only] what is good, requiring believers to reject all that contradicts God’s truth and righteousness.” – Berean Study Bible Notes

The LORD Jesus, speaking to the followers and disciples, says something that should help us gain a deeper insight into the ways of unrighteousness, and why we should walk only on God’s righteous paths.
– “24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” – Matthew 6:24

Many times we think the LORD Jesus is drawing a comparison about God and money in the above verse. Of course He is. However, the bigger point that our LORD is making is much deeper, much wider and far more consequential to us than just the money or the love of it.

The LORD Jesus says…
– No one can serve two masters;
– for either he will hate the one and love the other,
– or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other.
– You cannot serve God and mammon.

The point is about two masters and the human beings. The two masters are, God and anything that replaces Him. 

When our hearts are divided, between the two masters, it becomes easy for the evil to sift and sort us. We not only become vulnerable to the guiles of evil, but are actually drifting slowly and steadily towards evil. Such a situation is a hopeless and helpless situation because we have handed over the keys to our lives and its destruction.

The LORD speaking to us in Proverbs 4 advises and cautions us thus…
– “14 Do not enter the path of the wicked, And do not walk in the way of evil. 15 Avoid it, do not travel on it; Turn away from it and pass on.” – Proverbs 4:14-15

The LORD wants us to respond in a certain way, which is for our good. This is essential and important for us to UNDERSTAND and IMPLEMENT.
– “101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. 102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. 103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.” – Psalm 119:101-104 

A man when he desires to follow the LORD Jesus, and purposefully walks on His righteous paths, will surely be blessed by our LORD, which nothing can buy it for us; nor we can we ever earn it, in any possible way, except by following God faithfully and obediently.
– “​1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.” – Psalm 1

Even so the LORD help us to walk in His righteous ways, all the days of our lives.