Posted on 08/05/2019 7:24:28 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house” (Proverbs 5:8).
“Remove thy way far from her,” that is, stay away from the path of ungodliness, stay away from the wrong places, stay away from the wrong people. You say, “I work around them.” Pray much! Stay full of the Word of God. Pray in the morning and have a good daily devotion, and when you get home, pray and confess all things you heard and saw and get them covered by the Blood. Get some more Bible in you, spend the evening with your family, and go to church.
It’s a filthy business out there with all that ungodly stuff that goes on. But the Bible still promises: “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it” (I Corinthians 10:13 KJV). We can bear it, but we can’t if we don’t do anything about it. We need to counteract it.
All that worldly philosophy and unclean ideas that pass through your mind in the daytime—the things you hear and see—you have to counteract that when you get home. Most Christians don’t. They just go, “phew! I’m glad I’m home!” and then plop on the couch and turn on the TV until bedtime. Or they pick up the newspaper and read the same stuff over and over so that they can’t get away from it all. They cultivate that stuff all day—they don’t get into to Bible to cleanse their spirit. Turn on some good Christian music.
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord” (Colossians 3:16 KJV).
The right kind of Christian music will admonish you to do right, all the stuff of the world you hear all day at work will admonish you to do wrong. You sit there all day and take all that stuff in unfiltered and uncensored, by the time you get home, you feel as much like a Christian as the Devil does. You just have your cup full of the wrong stuff, so fill the cup with the right stuff.
Just confess all that. Ask God to purge your mind with the Blood of Jesus Christ. Get in the Bible, have some devotions with your wife and your kids, get on your knees and pray awhile, put on some good Christian music and start shouting. If you don’t, you’ll be pouting. Before you’re done, you’ll be doubting God, doubting your salvation, out of church and goodbye. The world will just dump that garbage on you—you gotta get clean of it when you get home.
Let’s read a chapter of Proverbs a day and see what God might have for us. As the Lord leads, share with us what God has shown you in a special way and by His grace let us build up a devotional repository. Let’s keep our knives and forks handy for some daily bread!
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