What are you doing at home that no one else sees?  Are you doing the same things infront of people that you would do by yourself? Are you honest or do you tell lies? Can I trust your word?  Can you answer these questions truthfully? The Bible says "Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”- John 3:20-21

Let us not be seduced by the world to act like the world. The Bible says " We are in the world but not of it"  I recently watched a brutal beating on CNN by gang members in which they beat a 16 year old to death.  This act is of the world and the wicked, and should not be named among us.  Just like lying, cheating, fornication, sin of pornography, and the like should not be named among us as Christians.  The enemy puts up smoke screens so that we cannot see.  His main job is to deceive us into thinking something other than the truth.  To make us feel that sin or the pleasure of it is where we should remain.  Remember, how I feel right now can change, so that feeling while in sin will change after you have committed it.  Our feelings are fickle, you can be sad one moment and happy the next, feeling pleasure one moment and then you are not! 

Let us become people of Integrity, everything we do is for God!  Things that people can't see us do, God can!  God sees our works whether wicked or good.  He also sees our hearts and our motives. 

Youth Pastor Jody Dentley