Always Abounding - Spring 2021

which is in you, which ye have of
God, and ye are not your own? For
ye are bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God’s”
(I Corinthians
6:19-20). What you see, what you
type, what you read, and what you
feel are all parts of your body which is
the temple of God the Holy Spirit. He
cares about all these things. Is what
I’m looking at, liking, typing, sharing,
or befriending bringing glory to God?
Read Psalm 1. If we want to be
godly, we can’t walk, stand, or sit with
scorners. Or, maybe it could be said
this way—we can’t look at scorners’
posts, befriend them, or like and
share their posts. We can’t look, then
pitch our tent, and afterward move
into town—and it not change who we
are.
“Be ye not unequally yoked
together with unbelievers: for
what fellowship hath righteousness
with unrighteousness? and
what communion hath light with
darkness?” (II Corinthians 6:14). This
includes political groups, etc. I can
share something conservative, but I
must be careful of being a part of or
“yoked together” with a group that
doesn’t put God first.
”Know ye not that the friendship
of the world is enmity with God?
Whosoever therefore will be a
friend of the world is the enemy of
God” (James 4:4b). This applies to
the physical world but also to the
cyberspace world as well.
“Go from the presence of a
foolish man, when thou perceivest
not in him the lips of knowledge”
(Proverbs 14:7). Or, this could be
stated, “Unfriend or unfollow a foolish
man, when….”
“I wrote unto you in an epistle
not to company with fornicators: Yet
not altogether with the fornicators
of this world, or with the covetous,
or extortioners, or with idolaters; for
then must ye needs go out of the
world. But now I have written unto
you not to keep company, if any man
that is called a brother be a fornicator,
or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer,
or a drunkard, or an extortioner;
with such an one no not to eat”
(I Corinthians 5:9-11). This is where
I get my principle that people can
follow me, but I don’t have to follow
them. The principle is that there is a
big difference between someone who
was a part of our church and has left
for wrong reasons and a new believer.
I need to be careful to stay away from
their influence in my life.
Sorry ladies, this is getting way too
long! But sadly, it all needs to be said,
because it’s not just young people who
are being pulled away from the Bible’s
clear commands. Ladies who would
have never dreamed of changing
convictions they were reared with are
failing to “continue in the things which
they have learned.” However, because
of careless media usage, they are “so
soon removed.”
Do you want to keep
your heart with all diligence? Take
time to study the previous passages.
Here are a few more passages that can
be studied as well: Ephesians 4:29-32,
I Corinthians 15:33-35, I Peter 5:8-9,
Ephesians 4:15-16, and Ephesians 5:1-
12.
(Becky Damron has been married to Dr. Steve
Damron for 26 years and serves the Lord
faithfully alongside him.)
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