Earlier in the year I
was a little incensed at the weeds in my neighbours garden, why?
Because they were creeping over to my garden.
It reminded me of a verse in scripture:
Do not be
deceived: "Evil company corrupts good habits."
Now obviously, I
can’t physically remove my garden from next door, what I had to do was take out
the weeds as they came over. However, we are reminded in 1 Corinthians 15 of
what evil company can do to us if we insist on being in their company. We are
surrounded by sinners who are not saved (I was once a sinner in darkness, now
I'm a sinner saved by God's grace) does that mean then that we are to take
ourselves off somewhere where there isn't any? No, scripture tells us that we
are in the world not of it, in other words whilst we have something to do with
those around us we are not to do what they do. We don’t find their smutty jokes
funny so why should we laugh at them, to be polite, no, we are not called to be
polite we are called to be holy, that is, separate from the world in the way
that they think about sin and ungodly living. Who you mix with, what you watch
on TV and the internet, what we listen to on the radio, what kind of music we
listen to, what kind of books we read all influences our spiritual life. If we
spend most of our time doing what the rest of the world is doing, then our
spiritual life will suffer.
We are called as Christians to be
salt and light to the world and we can’t be light to the world if we are not
walking in the light, Pamela talks about this in her blog, Glow in the Dark.
We are to influence the unsaved and not the other way around. I kept weeding my
garden I wouldn't let the weeds take hold, eventually my neighbour weeded her
garden too so now it all looks lovely.
We cannot influence the
unsaved around us if we are just letting their habits and sins spread into our
own lives, we must be holy and let the light of Jesus shine through our lives
showing others His wonderful grace and love.
No comments:
Post a Comment