Keep Yourself Unspotted
A very good morning to you! It is Tuesday morning, 28 June 2022, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.
If we start with Psalm 37 and I am reading from verse 27, the Lord says:
“Depart from evil, and do good;
And dwell forevermore.
For the Lord loves justice,
And does not forsake His saints;
They are preserved forever,
But the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.
The righteous shall inherit the land,
And dwell in it forever.”
What a beautiful scripture that is! Then we go straight to Proverbs 2 and this is what the word confirms yet again:
“For the upright will dwell in the land,
And the blameless will remain in it;
But the wicked will be cut off from the earth,
And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.”Proverbs 2: verse 21-22
You know, it sometimes appears these days, that evil and corruption are multiplied and the wicked are getting away with it... Not so according to our scripture this morning! The Lord says He will take care of the wicked. Jesus tells us to take care of the widow and the orphan, He tells us to do good. If we look at the word of God in James 1:27, this is what it says:
“Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.”
That is what we have got to do. Leave the wicked person unto the Lord, He will sort him out. When I was a young boy I left school very early - I worked in a tyre factory. It was a dirty and tough job, it was extremely hot. I was living in Central Africa. But now and again one of our customers, an old man who owned a fleet of old trucks (They were all tied together with bits of wire, painted silver, with a paintbrush by the way!) He would arrive on a very hot afternoon with a big toolbox full of ice cream and he would make an ice cream cone for every one of us in the factory. He did it out of the goodness of his heart - There was no charge but of course, you know who got preferential treatment and the best service when he came in to collect his tyres!
Today, do good, dwell in the land and leave the rest to Jesus.
Have a wonderful day, God bless you and goodbye.