STAND 👏🏻
Things of this world have a way of drawing you into their web of activity. The whole goal of the way of the world is to deceive you by appealing to the strings of your heart. Calling on the way you identify yourself. Feeding the innermost fears of your being. Rationalizing with the thoughts of your mind. Enticing your humanistic flaws to peer at the world around you through the lens of mankind. Sucking you into the deep blue sea of lies as though it’s a lifeboat only to drown you in their waves of fallacy. Straying you down the path away from truth.
As the world gathers and calls for celebration of sin, compromise of morality, and bends truth all in the form of social movements from the world perspective and view, be careful. Be careful to pray for discernment. Be thoughtful what you participate in. Be cautious who and what you entangle your soul with. Be careful not to follow the crowd riding wave after wave of the things of this world.
Peacefully yet BOLDLY stand in truth with love, even if you have to stand alone. Especially then. Stand. Wobbly knees. Stand. Feeling weak. Stand. Shaky voice. Stand. Although you feel alone, know this, when you stand and speak the truth of Jesus Christ, boldly, lovingly, with a heart of compassion, he stands with you.
The world will never understand why you stand alone. They will walk away from you as they mock your courage calling you crazy. Thats okay. Stand anyway. 👏🏻
The soul is the goal. May we not forget. 👊🏻
“Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.”
1 John 2:15 NLT
“Those people belong to this world, so they speak from the world’s viewpoint, and the world listens to them. But we belong to God, and those who know God listen to us. If they do not belong to God, they do not listen to us. That is how we know if someone has the Spirit of truth or the spirit of deception.”
1 John 4:5-6 NLT
“And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people. Therefore, come out from among unbelievers, and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord. Don’t touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you. And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. ””
2 Corinthians 6:16-18 NLT
