~Daily Devotion 11th~

Abstain from Evil

You and I live in an amazing time. It is a time of great spiritual light... and a time of great spiritual darkness.

Christians have more revelation of the Word of God than any other generation that has ever lived. Yet the world around us is growing more evil every day. Evidence of it is everywhere. If you turn on the nightly news, you'll hear one report after another of awful things people have done to one another, and sometimes it's what they have done to one of their own family members.

It seems that people today even applaud evil. If you flip through the TV channels, you're sure to come across a talk show, and you have to wonder where they find people who talk about the things they do!! These talk shows cover all kinds of depraved topics. And when they get the most depraved, that's when the audience clap the most. You may be saying but I do not watch those shows. Now let me ask you how much is your satellite are cable bill each month? The money that we as Christians are paying to watch TV could help save this lost world to Christ.

How are we as believers supposed to live in the midst of such evil? God's instructions are very clear;

"Abstain from evil (shrink from it and keep aloof from it) in whatever form or whatever kind it may be." I Thessalonians 5:22 (The Amplified Bible)

Abstain from evil. That means don't participate in it, don't watch it, don't feed on it, have nothing to do with it. As born again believers, we are not children of the dark. We are children of the light. We've been translated out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of God's dear Son. We have no business participating in evil. We have to turn entirely away from it. First Thessalonians 5 goes on to say,"And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through (separate you from profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God), and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and complete (and found) blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He Who is calling you (to Himself) and utterly trustworthy, and he will also do it (fulfill His call by hallowing and keeping you) verses 23-24, The Amplified Bible).

You and I are to be devoted to the Lord. He is calling us to Himself. He is calling us to be separate from evil and profane things, and to be consecrated and devoted to Him.

Father God, thank you for all your blessings, Help me to live a life that others will see you in me. Mold me and make me what you would have me to be. Help me to look at my life and home and see if it represents a Christian life. In Jesus Name I Pray. Amen and Amen