Friday; November 8
What is the right thing to do? Are we doing it? The reason I bring up these questions is that I have found it awful easy to excuse my inaction. Oh, I am very familiar with “right things”, but I am also very comfortable explaining away why I don’t do them. Sure, when the right thing is something I want to do, it is every easy to do it. Yet, when it is something I don’t really want to do I can find a myriad of excuses for why I can’t (or even why I shouldn’t do it). I am very willing to go out of my way to help people I want to help or do things I enjoy doing (even if they inconvenience me), but the real test of godliness is doing the right things that I don’t want to do for people I don’t want to help. One of the most difficult spiritual philosophies for me to live up to is the concept of knowing the right thing to do and do it (James 4:17). However, I also realize that not only is doing the right thing something God expects from me, it is also something that builds