Saturday, September 28, 2019

shameful to talk about


Today in the One Year Bible, Paul tells us that it's shameful even to TALK about the things that those who don't know Jesus do "in secret." He says this in Ephesians 5:1-33. He says that we should avoid all kinds of sins like sexual impurity and greed, and not even TALK about the sins that people fall into.

That goes along well with our command to think about "whatever is good, true, honest, praiseworthy" instead of thinking about the dark and terrible things of this world. Yes, we do have to think about them in order to fight them: no one is going to stop sex trafficking by pretending it doesn't exist. But we shouldn't dwell on it. Fight evil, but focus on the good.

Thanks, God, for teaching us not to dwell on evil.