The very thin line...

I have heard many a gist about the large gray area between black and white or good and evil. Yin and yang and all the many other names that they could be called. And in the midst of all this I have heard of the very large gray area, where all that men think is right can be put in comfortably. Now I wonder and I really wonder if there is a de-militarized zone between light and darkness. Matthew 6:24 answers this very bluntly saying; no one can serve two masters. 1 John 1:5 puts it even better by saying, God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. Looking at this passage I wonder whether God in all His might and power would enter into diplomatic relations with the devil to decide what is right or wrong. It can either be God's way or every other way. Meaning light or darkness, and the in-between definitely does not look gray. In reality it is actually a really thin line where the light does not spill into the dark or vice-versa.

In the computer world there is a way hackers get into systems and networks, and they do so not by posing as what shouldn't be, but as what could be. What I am trying to say is; if your beliefs and everything you stood for (both for yourself and in Christ), could be put in a bucket, rather than put holes in a bucket which shouldn't be, the bucket is made bigger so more beliefs can be put in.
Since the line between light and dark cannot be broken(in reality), we have a world where that line is constantly being tampered with in our minds and in our everyday lives. And one may ask how? By either pushing the line back or forward, we either accommodate more or less in our lives and end up being in places other than where God has meant to be. It started in the garden of Eden, when Eve was tempted, not by being told to do wrong, but by questioning her sense of right and wrong, it goes on even today. We have adults who when children, didn't like smokers or drunks, had no idea about sex or where disgusted by the very thoughts of it, guys who when they were little thought kissing was gross, girls who thought the very idea of sex was revolting. As kids we had very rigid ideas based on our upbringing of right and wrong. And why I would love to wonder where everything went wrong. But then really it doesn't really take too long to wonder why.


We grow up in a world where movies, series, songs, promote the idea that sex, drugs and booze are cool. Where pre-marital sex is normal, and it is ok to live with people of the opposite sex like a couple without getting married, it is now cool to sleep with as many people as possible and very uncool to stay a virgin on your wedding day. A world where self is valued more than value to the society. A world where ordinary cartoons for kids are filled with innuendos, either graphical or speechwise, all aimed at getting us to feel that a lot of things that shouldn't be could be.
The definition of a subliminal message is "A subliminal message is a signal or message embedded in another medium, designed to pass below the normal limits of the human mind's perception. These messages are unrecognizable by the conscious mind, but in certain situations can affect the subconscious mind and can negatively or positively influence subsequent later thoughts, behaviors, actions, attitudes, belief systems and value systems"
We are bombarded daily with messages, from the tv, radio and even from the internet, hints suggestions that don't lower our defenses but move the line forward step by step, inch by inch to the point where we begin to think being gay is not so bad, fornicating is not so bad, living comfortably with people of the opposite sex and having all we can is not so bad, the examples are countless. And we say we have grace and we have God's love, after all He loves us just the way we are. Yes He does, no doubt, but then that is why He sent His Son to die for us, not so we can remain the way we are but so we can turn our lives around to be just the way He meant us to be, line intact exactly where it should be.
So yes I have given my life to Christ and I am a new creature, all true but you are still subject to the flesh. I think of Daniel and I wonder what kept him strong in Babylon, a strange land with strange customs and beliefs, even when his peers where falling astray, Daniel 1:8, he made his decision in his heart and didn't just let it stay there but spoke out about it. I don't know how many of us (like me), have made a decision to serve but just let it stay in our heart and not spoken out when we should have. Esther nearly did the same and it would have cost her, her people and like her uncle told her eventually it would have cost her as well. Esther 4: 8-12 (12 When Esther's words were reported to Mordecai, 13 he sent back this answer: "Do not think that because you are in the king's house you alone of all the Jews will escape. 14 For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?"). You are who you are for a purpose, light of the world and salt of the earth and staying silent at a time like this would only defeat the purpose for which you are...
Two different portions of the scripture which I share here,
Ephesians 4: 17-24
17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. 19Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.

20You, however, did not come to know Christ that way. 21Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Romans 12: 1-2
1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual[a] act of worship. 2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Constant renewal of the mind, renewal of the mind in Christ, a sure way of achieving this is by constantly searching the scriptures. This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but thou shall meditate on it day and night... (Joshua 1:8). It is easy to get comfortable being just ok, but that is not your calling is it, to get you and just you to heaven. Go into your world and preach the gospel, go and shine out as a light to all nations, go out and be the salt, a flavor in a constantly darkening tasteless world.

It is your choice, but the truth remains what it is, the truth. God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. You cannot say you are in the light and still have darkness in you, you cannot have a light and hide it under your bed either.
Matthew 5:14-16
14"You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

Stay blessed