Joining with sinners is easy. Sin is fun and provides its pleasures. Walking in righteousness is harder but better.
Yet the Scriptures say blessed are those who do not participate with sinners in their sinful ways, but rather they pursue righteousness. Night and day a blessed person is in the Word and they meditate on the truths of God.
Such a person is fruitful even when things grow dark, even when things don’t go well, even when all is not right in the world. The well they draw from is deep.
Not so the wicked. They blow in the wind with the winds of change.
So true these days. Sin isn’t even called sin anymore even among God’s people. What is right is wrong and what is wrong is right, and if you support what is righteous you may get cancelled, fired, or ostracized and attacked.
A day is upon us where we will grow our roots deeper into Him as found in His Word, or we will be like chaff that blows in the wind, bending with every change that culture tries to press in upon us.
But the one “who meditates night and day” and doesn’t join the throngs in sin but delights in the ways of God will prosper. “The LORD watches over the way of the righteous.”
Sadly there will be a reckoning day for evil. Sinners will not stand in the judgment nor the assembly of the righteous. The way of the wicked leads to destruction.
Interestingly everyone thinks that they are righteous, as they are righteous in their own eyes. But it is God who defines righteousness and that cannot be reinterpreted from the Scripture. Furthermore it is God who grants righteousness through Jesus because there are none that righteous before God in our own power.
We are entering into times that I believe that are unprecedented in human history. The Word must be a part of our lives night and day so that we stay anchored to the truth. Now is the time.
