Fear No Fear

“Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, it is sin” (James 4:17, MEV). God loves us so much, He shows us the right path. Sin is disobedience. Period. The way we step off the path is compromise or rebellion. We either willingly transgress on purpose or we take small teensy steps because ‘it’s not that bad’. We accept something because it doesn’t SEEM ungodly. Or because we can clearly see the motivation behind it isn’t ungodly. So we let it squeak by. We justify our behaviour in small ways, and end up with a morality like Swiss cheese. Full of holes. Once we accept one thing, we’re more likely to accept the next step. That’s how the morality of the West has been being altered for decades. Through systematic planning of our programming to ensure that now, over seventy years into it, we take certain things that are objectively ungodly as perfectly ‘normal’. God isn’t surprised by this (2 Timothy 3:1-5). He’s been warning us for THOUSANDS of years now. It is WE who need to act. We need to chose to learn His Word. We need to get a steady, consistent diet of TRUTH into us so that we will understand when something that is NOT true comes across our path. It doesn’t matter if it’s educational. It doesn’t matter if it’s social. It doesn’t matter if everyone around us thinks it’s normal, fine, or even laudable. All that matters is what GOD says. He gives us the Word to light our path as we walk ever closer to Him (Psalm 119:105). He talks to us, corrects us, and teaches us with His Word (2 Timothy 3:16). It’s a wisdom the world cannot see or acknowledge (1 Corinthians 1:27). But it’s a wisdom we need to lean into, study, and put into our hearts so that we remain close to Him and recognize all things that are NOT of Him. The cure for compromise is the Truth from God’s point of view.