In vs. Of
Theme of the Week: Develop Your Spiritual Insight
Monday, August 10, 2009
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Key Bible Verse: Be innocent as babies when it comes to evil, but be mature in understanding matters of this kind (1 Corinthians 14:20). Bonus Reading: 1 Cor. 5:9-13
I know a man who desperately needed to buy a warehouse, but when a liquor company offered to sell him one, he balked. He asked me if he should buy it.
"There's no sin in purchasing real estate from the sinful," I told him, "unless you cheat someone else or use it sinfully yourself."
"Yes," he objected. "But what about using my money to prosper them."
"Look," I explained. "We live in a complicated world. You buy groceries at stores that sell liquor, fly on airplanes that give it away in first class, and stay in hotels that have bars. In the world isn't the same as of it."
On the other hand, a deep, close bond in business or a relationship with an unsaved partner is rife with danger. Unbelievers, sensing they'll also be blessed for the sake of the righteous, often want to partner with Christians. Potiphar and Pharaoh saw that hope in Joseph, Nebuchadnezzar saw it in Daniel.
The biblical admonition, "don't team up with those who are unbelievers" (2 Corinthians 6:14) is ignored at great risk. Ahab was spared because he was with Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 18:1-27), but Jehoshaphat nearly died because he was with Ahab. Don't link your destiny with another uncommitted to the God you serve.
—Mark Rutland in God of the Valleys
My Response: To function in the world without becoming aligned with it, I need to …
Adapted from God of the Valleys (Servant, 2000) by permission.
Copyright © 2009 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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Lord, help me to so saturate my outlook with your Word that I readily spot whatever counters its teaching.
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