Often, we Christians take our daily conversation far to lightly. Paul told us to “let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ”(Phil. 1:27). Again, in I Tim. 4:12, we are instructed to “be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, . . in purity.” The term conversation, means more then how we speak, but also how we act and function in society. Yet, somewhere in times past we have lost sight of this commandment. It is so easy to gossip at work, or just let little words, or deeds slip by that we really know are wrong. To be honest, it is often difficult to distinguish believers from nonbelievers. We have slowly lowered our standards and relaxed our beliefs. Christians have allowed the world to vex our conversations.
A similar situation is recorded in the Bible in the book of Genesis. After Abraham and Lot divided their belongings and went separate ways, each had to decide where they would go. Abraham continued to travel and trust in the Lord. Lot, on the other hand, “pitched his tent toward Sodom” (Gen. 13:12). Lot was leaning in the wrong direction. Peter tells us that Lot was “vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds” (II Pet. 2:7-8). Lot’s conversation was vexed by the sins of the world that he allowed himself to be around.
We Christians have pitched our tents toward SIN long enough. It is time that we “come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord” (I Cor. 6:17). We must look different, act different, be different. In other words, “be in all holy conversation and godliness” (1 Pet. 3:11). Let us therefore, be IN the world, but not OF the world. We cannot allow the cares of this life to pull us away from Christ. We have to tear down these fleshly walls of pride and the desires of the flesh that stand between us and the Almighty God that liveth for ever and ever. It is time that we once again have a whole hearted desire to serve the living God, and our Savior Jesus Christ.
Let us, therefore, put off the lust and the desires of the flesh. Yielding not the members of our body to the unrighteousness of sin. For “know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” (Rom. 6:16) Obeying only the desires, and wants of the “the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy;” (Isa. 57:15) the only true and wise God, our High Priest Jesus Christ. |
