Flee

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text

“Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart..” 2 Timothy 2v22 (NIV)

“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.” 1 Corinthians 6v18 (KJV)

“So, my dear friends, flee from the worship of idols.” 1 Corinthians 10v14 (NLT

There are certain things that the Bible tells us to flee from as we see in the different verses of scripture above. Synonyms for flee include abscond, bolt, escape and fly. The Bible is therefore saying, whenever the evil desires of youth, fornication, and the worship of idol are present, we should flee, abscond, bolt, escape and fly away from it. We thank God that His word says that “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

Supplementary Text

“But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.  But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.  Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.” 1 Timothy 6v6-11 (NIV)

Prayer

Father, we thank You for Your word and the caution that it gives us that we might live a life that glorifies You. Grant us the grace to flee every appearance of evil, and help us always to take the way of escape that You present to us in Jesus name, amen.