August 19, 2015

#3 Worship God by Choosing Good Over Evil



Romans 12:9 says,
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

I love the stories of Joseph in the Old Testament.  One particular story of interest for this point is in Genesis 39 when Potiphar’s wife was trying to persuade Joseph to sleep with her.  The passage says he ran out of the house to get away from her. He wanted nothing to do with evil.

As I’ve been thinking about this point more, I should have used stronger language than simply choosing good over evil.  We should be clinging and holding tight to good while we are hating and running away from evil.

Joseph didn’t linger around Potiphar’s wife and hang out and talk for a little while.  He didn’t flirt around with sin at all…it says he ran out of the house.

Sin will immediately come between us and God.  If we truly want to worship God all week long, we have to regularly running away from evil and clinging to what is good.

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