Fleeting vs. Established

April 30

Who among us is so blind as to be unable to recognize the total unworthiness of virtually every entity around us? Who cannot see the fact that our leaders are morally and ethically lacking and that business and even religious leaders are so consumed with the desire to profit financially that they will do or say anything, compromise any principle, in order to gain wealth and power?

Who among us has not felt the snare of temptation tugging upon us, heard temptation’s siren song wooing us to compromise our own integrity so we could become partakers more fully in the rewards that seem to accrue to those who set aside the standard of God and embrace the tactics of the world?

Whether the incentive might be to cheat on our taxes or to cheat on our spouse in order to realize a short-term prize of some sort, in the depth of our being we know that whatever ‘advantage’ we may appear to gain through the compromise of our integrity before God, it will be short-lived and it will turn to bitterness that will gnaw within us and ultimately destroy us.

Though we may not appear to gain an advantage when we do things God’s way, His Word assures us that we do. Proverbs 3:5, 6 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” Our ways, the world’s ways may bring an advantage to those who employ them, but it is fleeting. God’s ways are established and His ways are eternally blessed.