Part of the crowd.
Is that us? Are we hoping to be invisible, not create waves, not be noticed? We don’t want to stir trouble, so we go along with the current crowd. If everyone else thinks it’s okay, then it must be all right.
Right?
Adam had only one other person in his crowd, and the Father said to him in Genesis 3:17:
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.”
Bam, God said. Being part of the crowd, even if your wife’s involved, is not part of God’s plan. We aren’t to do it.
Galatians 3:13 says we can stand for him, because he’s taken the curse from us:
“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree’—”
Isaiah 54:17 assures us that in standing up for Christ, we have the power of our Lord in our fist:
“No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”
1 John 4:1 cautions us that even a spiritual-looking crowd might lead us astray:
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
Our Christian walk isn’t one of going along with the crowd because it’s the easy way. That’s walking on the broad road that leads to destruction. We must get along after Jesus, cause our voices to stand out for him, and let him be the strength in our limbs. When we look like Jesus, we will stand out against the anonymity of the world.
We have to be willing to risk our toes if we want to be the first to step out in the holy name of Christ our Lord.
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