Oil or Water, Sand or Sea, Light or Dark

I use to listen to disc jockeys that were (maybe still are) the playboys on air. They would have listeners come in and do nasty things to themselves or others in order to win tickets to events and they would discuss issues that are distasteful.
Now, I am not saying they are the same today because I do not listen to them anymore. However, I did listen to them Monday through Friday and sometimes on Saturday the radio station would replay some of their segments for a laugh. They were funny guys and they were popular to listen to. The office where I worked we would talk about some of the things that were done that morning on their show and then laugh or tell a joke we heard from them.
Then when Sunday morning came around, I was in church. I sat in the pew, prayed when I was called to and just did the "Sunday thing."  What is so wrong about this, right? I mean everyone else in the church is doing the same thing and it's a popular show. Everyone is doing it. I couldn't help it, they were funny though. It doesn't matter that much and it certainly doesn't affect me listening to these guys. Wrooooong!
Oil and water, sand and sea, light and dark cannot coexist.  Hmmm....

I started to be convicted. I've heard how God is love, Christ is light, and the world is dark. I just didn't get it, didn't care because I wanted to do what I wanted. As I sat in the church I started listening more. I started hearing my friends talk, myself, and others. I realized I didn't like what I heard.
Here is some food for thought.
Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children. And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for the saints. Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.  For know and recognize this: every sexual immoral and impure or greedy person, who is an idolater does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God. (Eph 5:1-5)
I was a participant in those things just by listening to this show. I couldn't take my kids to church and not sit there myself. If I dropped my kids off at church and I didn't go then I felt guilty; I tried.
If you are struggling with the way this world is and you are being convicted as I was at one time; there is hope. It is your choice to which team you want to play on. I encourage you to be the oil, the sea, and the light; be different and set yourself a part from the world. It is worth it in the end.
It was difficult for me to finally change what I was listening to because it wasn't popular, but I felt better about myself and that was GOOOOOD!


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Be encouraged!