Tuesday July 01st, 2025
« When people commend themselves, it doesn’t count for much. The important thing is for the Lord to commend them »
40 Some Pharisees who were there with him heard him say this and asked him, “Surely you don’t mean that we are blind, too?”
41 Jesus answered, “If you were blind, then you would not be guilty; but since you claim that you can see, this means that you are still guilty.”
- Many a time, people have something in their lives that they know is wrong, but say, “It’s not too bad”.
By the time you say it is not too bad, it means it’s already bad; you are just looking for an adjective to qualify ‘bad’.
- In Genesis 9:20-25, Noah – that great man of God who survived the flood, must have had a habit of drinking just a little wine occasionally.
Not too bad, right ?
However, one day, he took one cup too many and became drunk.
When he woke up, he pronounced a curse on one of his three sons, saying he would become a servant of servants.
He cursed his own legacy.
Worse still is the second man with this same habit – Lot.
In Genesis 19:30-38; Lot had just been rescued from destruction, but he too had the habit of taking just a little wine occasionally.
His two daughters got him drunk and made him sleep with them one after the other and he produced children by them.
When you go through the Scriptures to see these two families that he produced, you wouldn’t want to end up like them.
One set were the Moabites Genesis 19:37 and the second were the Ammonites – a people so terrible that they ripped open a pregnant woman, Amos 1:13.
See what God had to say about them in Zephaniah 2:9NKJV
« Therefore, as I live,” Says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Surely Moab shall be like Sodom, And the people of Ammon like Gomorrah— Overrun with weeds and saltpits, And a perpetual desolation. The residue of My people shall plunder them, And the remnant of My people shall possess them.” »
All these happened because Lot decided to drink just a ‘little wine’.
Stop indulging your bad habits; stop justifying your evil actions.
Don’t indulge in anything that is bad at all.
Abstain from anything that does not glorify the Lord.
Only then can your destiny really be secure in Christ.
For some, it is secular music or unnecessary closeness to people of the opposite sex.
That is all the devil needs to get you into fornication. Song of Solomon 2:15ESV says
« Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.” »
Prayer focus – Father, any little fox that can spoil my vine, please remove it now, in Jesus’ name.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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