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Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
--Psalm 119:105
Life is a series of decisions. Where you are today is the result of decisions you have made in the past. Where you will be tomorrow is determined by the choices you make today.
In fact, where you will be in eternity is determined by the decisions and choices you make today. Sadly, there is an anti-God and anti-Christian bias in the world. It’s easy to be sucked into making wrong decisions if you listen to the world instead of the Word.
So, if you are going to make decisions based out of your convictions, you must hide the Word of God in your heart.
If you devour the Word of God, you won’t be ruled by emotions, feelings, or popular thinking. You’ll live by the principles of the Word of God.
According to Psalm 119:97-100, “Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.”
Do you test every major decision in your life against God’s word?
A Traitor to the Lord
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by Dr. Paul Chappell
“Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes, And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.”
Luke 6:14–16
He was undoubtedly the most gifted military strategist of all of America’s generals during the Revolutionary War. He was loved by his soldiers, and courageously led them into battle rather than remaining behind as many officers did. He rallied the American troops to victory in the crucial Battle of Saratoga even though he had been ordered to remain in his quarters. This man they called the “Black Eagle” was so feared by the Indian allies of the British that just the rumor he was coming was enough to lift the Iroquois’ siege of Fort Ticonderoga. Yet we do not know him for any of his heroic actions. We know him as Benedict Arnold—the man who betrayed his country.
Though we look down on traitors like Judas or Benedict Arnold, the sad reality is that too often we also join forces with the enemy. We tend to take sin casually, not realizing what it truly says about our loyalty and allegiance. Paul wrote, “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” (Romans 6:16). We must never forget that even though our eternal salvation is settled forever, as long as we live here on Earth we are part of a spiritual battle. Satan will tempt to allure us to abandon our allegiance to the Lord, and though he no longer controls our lives, when we sin, we are doing his bidding.
Luke 6:14–16
He was undoubtedly the most gifted military strategist of all of America’s generals during the Revolutionary War. He was loved by his soldiers, and courageously led them into battle rather than remaining behind as many officers did. He rallied the American troops to victory in the crucial Battle of Saratoga even though he had been ordered to remain in his quarters. This man they called the “Black Eagle” was so feared by the Indian allies of the British that just the rumor he was coming was enough to lift the Iroquois’ siege of Fort Ticonderoga. Yet we do not know him for any of his heroic actions. We know him as Benedict Arnold—the man who betrayed his country.
Though we look down on traitors like Judas or Benedict Arnold, the sad reality is that too often we also join forces with the enemy. We tend to take sin casually, not realizing what it truly says about our loyalty and allegiance. Paul wrote, “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” (Romans 6:16). We must never forget that even though our eternal salvation is settled forever, as long as we live here on Earth we are part of a spiritual battle. Satan will tempt to allure us to abandon our allegiance to the Lord, and though he no longer controls our lives, when we sin, we are doing his bidding.
Today’s Growth Principle:
Every sin a Christian commits is an act of treason against the Lord who gave His life for our salvation.
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