Before salvation, the Bible says that everyone is the servant of sin. There has been a yielding to sin, and a choice to serve it was made.

Because of the choice to serve sin – even once – it must be remembered that the “wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). People show what they are by whom they serve – “by their fruits ye shall know them” (Matthew 7:20).

Paul, speaking under the direction of the Holy Spirit, says that believers have a choice in who you will serve – Christ or the devil (synonymous with the flesh because if you are serving the flesh you are not serving God).

A believer – and anyone else – can only serve one master well. It is time for Christians who say that they have been washed from their sins to serve God with their whole heart.

Being half in the world and halfway serving Christ is not fooling anyone – but yourself. Paul spells it out very plainly: “to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey.”

Christian friend – let’s get real and live like we have been redeemed. Put away the sin and put on righteousness. Not only is God and the angels watching your life – but so are your family and neighbors. What do they see?

Are you showing them that it is worthwhile to serve a living Savior? Do you want your children to follow your example?

The world is changing fast. Things that were never dreamed of in America just five years ago are now being seen frequently. COVID and its current problems and changes in the world could not have been predicted five years ago.

Something else that was unforeseen just five years ago is the current condition of the Bible-preaching churches. There has been a lot of people that have turned away from the local church.

At one time, some of these people were zealous in serving God and being an example and blessing to others. Now, they won’t be seen in any church.

This makes me want to ask them: Has God changed? Has He stopped blessing the faithful? Has He failed to meet the needs of those that love Him? Has He stopped being merciful and gracious when those things are needed? To them I would also like to say: Why quit now when we are so close to going to glory?

To each of the above questions, my own personal testimony is no to each of them. He is faithful and cannot be otherwise. Though some of His ways are not understood now, it is still true that He will never break His promises.

The truth is that our High Priest (Jesus Christ), will never change because He cannot. This means that the believer will never have a real reason in light of eternity to quit.

It is time for the real believers to stand up and provide examples as to what a real Christian should be – based on the Bible. Thank God that the more faithful you are to Him the more faithful He will show Himself to be to you.