Mud Pit

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world"- James 1:17 (NIV).

My mother used to say, "You can't play in the mud without getting mud on you." Wise words! As Christians, we know where the "sin line" is drawn and crossing it becomes disobedience. The question Christians need to ask themselves is not where the line is drawn, but how close you stand to that line? Are you a "line-hugger?" Do you stand with your toes right up next to the line or do you take measures to ensure you won't be pulled over the line by the temptations of lies, lust...or leaning so far over you are either, in the mud pit before you are even aware of it, or being splattered by flying mud from those already playing in it? Wouldn't it be wiser to set yourself a great distance from that line? Do you want your white-clothed children playing on the plush grass-covered lawn of obedience or standing on the edge of the mud pit? Neither does God the Father.