Beware the Bitterness of Backsliding

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• Be careful who you associate with. Bad company corrupts good character. So choose your friends wisely. They are not true friends if they pull you away from God. It’s too hard to swim upstream, so don’t, like I did, put yourself in such situations. I thought I could hang out with worldly people and that my lifestyle would rub off on them, that they would soon adopt my higher standards. Instead, I began lowering my standards. It is a slippery slope that you don’t want to fall into. • Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit, thinking that what you are sensing is only your own thoughts in your head, or your imagination. Test them and heed them if they prove from above! • Don’t compromise your Christian standards for even one second – not even in conversation or jesting, let alone major transgressions (for nothing, no matter how pleasing, is worth being separated from God for even one second, nothing and no one … no matter how charming). Again it is God who we will stand before in the Judgment, not that person. • Don’t be fooled by the lack of consequences right away. That is the trick of the enemy to make it seem like consequences will never come. But they will. • Write down the tender mercies that He sends you each day. Thank Him for them. He loves it when we appreciate all He does for us. He promises, I will never leave you nor forsake you. You may “feel” like He should forsake you because of your sin. But that is not the character of God. If an earthly parent can graciously forgive his child over and over again, can’t the perfect Parent – Jehovah? Isaiah 55,
verses 8 & 9 remind us that God’s ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts higher than our thoughts. Verses 6 & 7 say: Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the Lord, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon. • Don’t dally around an open gate. Close it and flee as fast as you can. • If you compromise, don’t let one compromise lead to the next. Repent of it, and refuse to compromise again. It is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. (1 Peter 3:17)
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