Truth and Consequence

I wasn't an old teenager before I discovered that everything has a consequence. An the older I got the more things had consequences. I like to explain by telling about the rain. When you are young (kid) and it rains outside the consequences are mostly of the positive varaity. Rain means mud, jumping in it, dancing in it or movie time inside. When you get older rain means doing nice stuff inside because outside you'll be wet and cold. To a mother rain means work, dirty kids, dirty floors, dirty clothes if you don't get them in. To an older person rain means wet, cold, sick, slippery so you might fall down. So every choice you make has a consequence. I could go on about this, but today I wanted to focus on truth and consequence. If you don't tell the truth there will be consequences later. If you tell a white lie so that there will be no argument at the moment, a bigger one is waiting for you down the line.

You want to go see a movie or something and there is certain people you don't want to go with. Will you lie and tell them you are doing something else and take the risk that you might meet them there in the big crowd or will you tell them the truth and risk them being mad at you?
Or what do you do when the cool, popular person ask you flat out (with a tone): are you one of those that believes in Jesus?? Do you lie and hope to be a part of their crowd or do you tell the truth and risk getting bullied?


Tough choice, huh? Many times, trying to do the right thing is really tough because the wrong thing could be so much fun, while the right choice seems like a drag! Take Moses, for example. He faced a tough choice: turn his back on God and his people to live his life in the lap of luxury, or hang out with a bunch of complainers in the desert. Pretty clear choice, wouldn't you say? But Moses chose the longer-lasting rewards of obeying God instead of the immediate gratification of sin.
Most of the discible faces crusefiction, hanging, decapitation, stoning for their belief. All they had to do to stop it was to say: I don't believe in Jesus as the only way...
It does put things in perspective....

Till next time,
God Bless