Following Your Convictions

Proverbs 22; Proverbs 23; Proverbs 24; Romans 14
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Following Your Convictions

Scripture

Romans 14

23 But if you have doubts about whether or not you should eat something, you are sinning if you go ahead and do it. For you are not following your convictions. If you do anything you believe is not right, you are sinning.

Observation

If you do anything you believe is not right, you are sinning. You may ignore what the Bible says and say that you don't believe what it says about a certain sin and do it but it is still sin. What Paul is talking about are those gray areas in our lives where something may be a sin for one person but not the other. Drinking a glass of wine or a can of beer may fit into this category today. We don't have to worry in our culture about food that has been offered to idols, but we have other stuff. Watching an R rated movie could be another or for some people it could even be wearing jewelry or getting a tattoo etc.

If I think it is not right but I go ahead and do it anyway then it is sin. It could be walking into a casino or buying a lotto ticket. If I think it is wrong but I go ahead and do it then it is sin.

Application

I will not judge others about where they go and what they do. And I will be careful not to do the things that I believe are wrong.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, help me not do the things that I believe that are wrong even it is OK for other people to do them. I pray that You give me strength to stay away from things that would cause me to sin against You. It is my desire to stay pure today. So I pray that You would allow me to walk close to You so that I do not fall into temptation.

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