Thursday’s Thought

      A Mid-Week Inspirational Message

    (C) 2003-2008 Ron Adams

The Slippery Slope

How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!

Psalms 1:1

Note the Progression:

walk, stand, sit

listen, join, defend

It's not one giant step from doing good to doing wrong.

It’s three small steps.

What are the three steps to perdition (final ruin)?

STEP ONE: DABBLE IN WHAT IS QUESTIONABLE OR WRONG

Become lax; ignore rules in a particular instance.

Violate conscience.

(May only plan to dabble, but like the vortex of a whirlpool,

one is drawn in more and more.)

STEP TWO: PARTICIPATE KNOWING IT'S WRONG

Refuse admonitions of Scriptures and of brethren.

Stifle prodding of conscience.

Offer excuses.

STEP THREE: JUSTIFYING AND DEFENDING IT.

Conscience seared so it can't prod.

Can't see any wrong in doing it.

Oppose those who disagree.

STAGES OF THREE STEPS TO RUIN

By dabbling, to doing, to defending.

By giving in, to giving over, to giving up.

WATCH THAT FIRST STEP!

Resist

being drawn into sin by evil surroundings.

Refrain

 from questionable and worldly activity.

Remain

steadfast.

Quotation from NASB