Psalm 10:17-18 English Standard Version (ESV)

¹⁷ O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;
    you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear
¹⁸ to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
    so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

Amen, as in “Make it so!”

What we see in the world right now does not exactly match this sentiment. Does the fact that we do not see peace on earth mean that God hasn’t performed His Word?

My opinion is that God is always right, Jesus is righteous, and I am their subject. I do not get to judge God according to what I perceive in this world. I believe in Jesus Christ and that has to come first.

Psalm 26:3 English Standard Version (ESV) For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness.

One must see His steadfast love in order to walk in it. Note closely about walking in His faithfulness and not our own. If all we see is terror we will fall to it. If all we see is violence we will fall to it. If all we see is God’s steadfast love, we will fall to it.

In verse 17 above He will strengthen our hearts if we pore out our desires concerning afflictions. There is a call to pray going on right now. Many see affliction coming. That is a world view. What does God see?

I read my bible and the prophecies. It is the imagination that tries to fit all the pieces together.  God reveals with purpose and if we are to see things God’s way, then it is because He is calling us to be in His will with purpose.

Until then, carry out His last command. Make disciples.

1 Corinthians 6:18 AMPC Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

Shun immorality and all sexual looseness [flee from impurity in thought, word, or deed]. Any other sin which a man commits is one outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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1 Corinthians 6:18 English Standard Version (ESV)

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

There is a trap set for us by Satan in playing games with words. His version sounds like this; “You already thought it. Too late.” That is not what the verse says. It says flee. Lingering on these thoughts is like a festering wound. If gone untreated it becomes gangrenous.

1 John 1:8 English Standard Version (ESV) If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

We know what we are and we know our advocate. He fights for us not just on judgment day but He fights for us against every impure thing, thought, word or deed. If we do not believe that we are in danger of allowing sin to fester.

I had a wise elder tell me to go ahead and sin all I wanted. He knew the Holy Spirit was leading me and it turned out I didn’t want to sin. Sin I did, but I didn’t want it. We are human and it is the human condition to live in this world, in this body and in it there is the capacity to sin. Capacity is not the same thing as inclination. Incline to sin and correction will soon fallow.

I offered up the harsher AMPC version as it expands to areas we tend to overlook because it isn’t easy to control every thought.

Fleeing is easy.