Deeper Life #169

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

—Isaiah 1:4

BE CAREFUL ABOUT HOW YOU guide your Christian life. You must do more than follow the ordinary standards of the world.

It is very tempting to follow the world’s standards in your business and to say, “Oh, well, they all do it. I must do the same.” But if that standard conflicts in the tiniest degree with the clear standard of God, beware! It is an attempt to make a judicious blend of corrupting worldliness and godliness.

Compromising Christians spread their disease quicker than any other kind. One backslider exerts an influence over the community that is tenfold worse than the influence of a hundred sinners who have never been saved.

Prayer Thought: If my conduct has provoked You, Lord, I pray that You will reveal my fault and forgive me.

SUGGESTED READING: Ephesians 5:1–15