"There's nothing wrong with this."
I'm done. I said that phrase about playing video games. The Lord took video games away. I said about watching football. The Lord took watching football. I said it about playing games. The Lord took games away.
The list can go on and on.
I'm done. When God says don't mix me with those things, I listen now. I tried to memorize verses while watching football. No go. I tried praying for people while playing volleyball. Nope, didn't work.
Why? "There's nothing wrong with..."
Look at people who walked by faith. that comment is absent from their minds when they are serving God. When Elijah slew the prophets of Baal, did he say, "now, there's nothing wrong with this!" When Jeremiah prophesied against Jerusalem, did he say, "there's nothing wrong with this!" ?? When the Pharisees grumbled over Jesus eating with sinners, did Jesus respond, "there's nothing wrong with this!" ?? When Peter healed the lame man, did he tell the Saduccees, "If we be examined for this good deed which we have done to the impotent man, Be it known unto you and all in Jerusalem that there was nothing wrong with what we did." ???
You see, when you're serving God, you won't say that phrase. Because you'll being doing what is right.
1Pe 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
So what's the problem? Not glorifying God. Every second of your life that you spend not glorifying God is a second that you spend in sin. You are either doing what God wants you to do. Or you are sinning. "Whatsoever is not of faith is sin". So if you are pleasing God, you will not have to vindicate there being nothing wrong with it. You'll have complete confidence that it's the right thing to do!
