Stealing

Proverbs 10:2
Ill-gotten treasures are of no value,
but righteousness delivers from death.

Have you ever stolen anything?

I did when I was a young child. A sucker, of coarse. While mom was paying for something, I slyly lifted the sucker out of the plastic container and put the sucker in my pocket. I still remember thinking I couldn't wait to eat it. I got in the back seat of the car and unwrapped it. This was the end of my shoplifting career. Mom heard that wrapper and marched me straight back into the store. I too have had the experience of doing the same to my oldest daughter.

It seems silly to have to remind grown adults that things that are stolen have no value. It seems silly to remind us that being deceitful really isn't any better. I don't know about you but I have walked out of a restaurant and said nothing when they have forgotten to put my soda on the bill. Isn't that stealing?

I am righteous because He is righteous. There is very little I can do to come close to the righteousness of God but I am called, you are called, to be righteous. Sometimes when we begin to justify our ill-gotten behaviors, we need to understand that righteousness lives in us. Do we understand what that means? Do we understand that we are in this moment, in this decision, not representing ourselves but the one true God? We are called out of death.

Please continue to pray for Angela S this week