Saturday July 18th, 2026
Meditate on 1 Corinthians 10:23EE
« Some of you may say, ‘We are free to do anything that we want to do!’ But not everything is good for you to do. You may say, ‘We are free to do anything!’ But not everything helps you to be strong as a believer »
1 Vindicate me, O Lord, For I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in the Lord; I shall not slip.
2 Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my mind and my heart.
3 For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.
4 I have not sat with idolatrous mortals, nor will I go in with hypocrites.
5 I have hated the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.
6 I will wash my hands in innocence; so I will go about Your altar, O Lord,
7 That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all Your wondrous works.
8 Lord, I have loved the habitation of Your house, and the place where Your glory dwells.
Those who want to be intimate with God must love what He loves and hate what He hates.
If you want to get close to God, you must know the things that He hates and stay far away from them 1 Thessalonians 5:22.
Anywhere you see something that looks like sin, flee!
Whenever I hear people trying to justify something sinful, I get irritated because clearly, this is something to stay away from.
Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 6:12Amplified
« Everything is permissible for me, but not all things are beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be enslaved by anything [and brought under its power, allowing it to control me] »
If you really want to be intimate with God, you will stay away from even things that, though lawful, would have a negative impact on your relationship with Him.
In Daniel 1:3-8 , Daniel decided not to eat the king’s meat.
It was lawful, but he knew that it would defile him, so he refused.
It is lawful to be intimate with your legally married spouse or eat three times a day.
There is no sin in that at all,
- but those who want to be intimate with God know that they must fast often.
They know that there is a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing so that they can give themselves wholly to God, Ecclesiastes 3:5, 1 Corinthians 7:4-5.
Apostle Paul – a man who desperately wanted to be intimate with God, refused to marry so that there would be absolutely nothing to distract him in his journey of intimacy with God.
The question to you now is: do you really want to be intimate with God ?
If you do, then there are some things you have to stay away from because they are impediments to the flow of the Spirit of God in a person’s life.
You know them yourself; they make you feel filthy and draw you far from the Lord.
Stay away from them.
In turn, spend your time basking in the presence of God and just fellowshipping with true brethren.
As you do this and get closer to God, you would begin to realise that you are becoming more and more like Him,
and you will even begin to carry His power to work miracles.
Application – Even some lawful things may have to be avoided in order to get closer to God.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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