Every day we come to the crossroads and we are given a choice, do I follow the world or do I follow God? The enemy will make the path of the world very enticing and the choice will often be the difference between the harder and easier road.
Despite this, however, there is a comfort in the heart when you make the right choice. It resonates inside where God’s word has been printed in your soul.
This is the reassurance we get when we make choices, even difficult and painful ones.
The choices we make against sin are particularly impacted this way. As we face these choices we have been promised that a door to escape will always reveal itself. Granted we need to be looking for the door at the time, but the door is there!
One way to see this is that the path to sin often starts very innocently. The first few steps toward sin don’t necessarily cross our hearts as evil, but possibly as simple pleasures of being in the world, the exercise of legitimate power and authority based on your job, or founded in the fact that you alone will be knowledgeable and impacted.
But these innocent steps transform themselves gradually over time. What we may fail to see is that the door that God provided for s appeared early, before we were so tempted and so close to falling.
So we have to be ever watchful for all the doors.
Mark K