November 5

“If we walk with [God], in obedience to His Word, He will stand with us and ensure victory over our challenges.  We must face the battle, but God promises us victory if we remain in His will.  However, if we choose to disassociate from God, we surely will be overtaken by difficulties.”  H. Blackaby, Experiencing God Day-by-Day, 10/14

We have to either be for God or against Him.  We cannot straddle that fence that I spoke of yesterday and still be for God.  Yet we do.  The world looks down on black and white thinking.  It wants to accommodate everyone and their ideas of what is right and wrong.  We say there is a gray area.  As Christians, this is when we start to get in trouble.  This is when we allow wrong doctrine to infiltrate our churches.  However, at the same time those who do think in black and white can often come off as judgmental which obviously is not what God wants His people to be.  Only He is the judge.  That is why we are only to confront others in love.  It was Jesus’ love that enabled Him to take a stand for what was right.  And it is what enables us now to do the same.  By His love we will be able to do and be right without being judgmental.  Others may feel judged, but if God’s love is in our hearts, this will enter into their hearts to heal the wound made by the arrow of Truth.

“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”  Hebrews 4:12