What are you willing to do for $10,000,000?
Two-thirds of Americans polled would agree to at least one, some to several of the following:
- Would abandon their entire family (25%)
- Would abandon their church (25%)
- Would become prostitutes for a week or more (23%)
- Would give up their American citizenships (16%)
- Would leave their spouses (16%)
- Would withhold testimony and let a murderer go free (10%)
- Would kill a stranger (7%)
- Would put their children up for adoption (3%)
You may think that this sounds absurd, but faced with this temptation where would you find yourself standing? Would any of you start to think, "Oh well I can find a new Church!' or "It's only a trial, He will get caught soon enough"? Perhaps not. But take things down to the more base area of life and consider the chance of claiming an extra few dollars on your tax return that is not really true, or even closer to home some of us live a life at home and another within the church or around fellow Christians. We abandon who we are and never face the truth of change. Or should I say the challenge of change?
(Proverbs 11:3) "The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the crookedness of traitors shall destroy them."
It's so much easier to walk the way of the world and take the easy out, but as the verse above declares our integrity shall guide us. In other words if our ways are fixed on the principles of God our ways are plain, our direction clear and our life sure. If we live this way it's not hard but indeed easy, because our ways are set and fixed. I truely believe that those decisions made in life will cause us to grow or stagnate in our walk with God. It is after all about faith, and whether we really trust God or not.
Well those are my thoughts
Pastor Rob.
