Show me how to worship and serve You Lord with a pure and genuine religion. James gave us two components of sanctified religion. The first is most well known, taking care of orphans and widows. The second had escaped my attention. Let's look at the Scripture with the removal of the first: "Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means...refusing to let the world corrupt you." Money, power, position...violence, sex, drugs...What about allowing worldliness to desensitize us? We watch television shows glamorizing evil, read demoralizing sins of the flesh literature, listen to music that is contrary to our faith and our God...and remain silent, anesthetized, on the sidelines as this parade of sin passes before us. I listened to a man tell a group that Moses' burning bush was produced by ground-seeping oil in the middle east. Isn't silence the same as agreement? There should be an addendum to today's Scripture: "Refusing to let the world corrupt you"...and those around you. Lord forgive my numb silence and revive us!
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