Ledges, Hedges and Wedges
July 20, 2008
Life is full of ledges. They are all around us every day. They usually promise a spectacular view, but we must remember that the wages of sin is death. Sin is a lot like a credit card, you may receive free interest for a while but eventually you have to pay the debt. In life we can’t help but see the ledges, but we don’t have to go play on them. Christians often play on the ledges of debt, pornography, idolatry, alcohol and idleness. When we fall we wonder how this happened. We fail to guard the spiritual aspect of our lives as we should. We seem to think that we can live as we desire and have a sterling walk with God. This is not so. Playing on these five ledges will always prove costly if not deadly.
As believers we can erect hedges around our lives and those of our children. IF you have a problem spending money, cut up the credit cards. To quote the old adage, “an idle mind is the devil’s workshop. Keep yourself busy reading, praying, spending quality time with your family, and get active in church doing the Lord’s work. Beware unmonitored internet access or television. Too many teens have rejected God because they had a television in their bedroom with access to late night channels. Meanwhile dad and mom were asleep in bed comfortable their children were safe while the enemy was attacking their soul. The bottom line is that we must not set ourselves or our families up to fail in a “moment of weakness.” When we erect hedges to protect our lives for God, Christ honors that. God honored Job’s efforts to serve Him by erecting a few hedges of His own. “So Satan answered the Lord and said, Does Job fear God for nothing? Have you not made a hedge around him, and his household, and around all that he has on every side?” We must not lower our hedges. Later God lowered Job’s hedges but not without abundant grace and a greater manifestation of Himself.
If we have no hedge we fall of a ledge and tragically create a wedge between ourselves and God. “But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear” (Isaiah 59:2). If we don’t erect hedges around our lives and those of our families we create a cycle that ultimately leads to a form of pseudo spirituality that ends in death.
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