Today’s Bible Reading: Lamentations 1; Lamentations 2; Obadiah 1; Revelation 14 (The Message)
Lamentations 1:9 She played fast and loose with life, she never considered tomorrow, and now she’s crashed royally, with no one to hold her hand:
Revelation 14:3–5 They were bought from earth, lived without compromise, virgin-fresh before God. Wherever the Lamb went, they followed. They were bought from humankind, firstfruits of the harvest for God and the Lamb. Not a false word in their mouths. A perfect offering.
In these two descriptions found in Lamentations and Revelation, we see opposite characteristics. Lamentations describes a person who was more concerned with personal pleasure. “Fast and loose” would describe someone who isn’t honest or reliable, someone who is self centered. This person does not consider tomorrow and only lives for today.
In Revelation another kind of person is described. This person lives without compromise to God’s principles. This person follows Jesus wherever he leads and is completely honest.
Every day I have a choice to live a life without compromise to integrity and dependability. I have a choice whether to follow where Jesus leads me today.
Tomorrow is coming where the choices I’ve made today will matter for eternity. What will I choose today?
Father God, give me the inner strength to walk with integrity today, and to walk where Jesus leads, for nothing else matters more than this.