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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