“But
whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty
of all”. Jam 2:10
I am sure you are
familiar with this powerful statement made by Mohandas Gandhi “One man cannot do right in one department
of life, whilst he is occupied doing wrong in any other department. Life is one
indivisible whole”. I hope this makes sense to us. We keep
compartmentalizing our life for multiple reasons of our own, most often for our
own moral reason. We also hear and witness how Christians make a segmentation
of their life and call as ‘Sacred’
and ‘Secular”. Life is sacred and is
consistent. One area which disturbs most of us is to see and witness some, who
are so convincing in the podium and in their inspirational deliveries to
others, are so contrary in their lifestyle. We forget that the Lord is watching
us intensely. Pro 5: 21 says “For the ways
of man are before the eyes of the Lord, And He watches all his paths”. How
often Bible is stretched left and right to communicate their personal agendas.
How pathetic and heartbreaking to see such categories of people who are “walking encyclopedias but living failures”. Tit-1:16 says “They profess that
they know God; but in works they deny
him, being abominable, and disobedient, and
unto every good work reprobate.”
James 2:10 Puts in this way “But whoever keeps the whole law and yet
stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all”. It is just not possible to manage spirituality
and live a consistent life in one situation and continue to do wrong and be
inconsistent in another situation, we will be deceiving ourselves. Pro 20:10
“Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD” There
is an old saying that comes to my mind “A person who is nice to you and rude to the
waiter is not a nice person” Davd Barry. We tend to be nice based on
how favorable the situation is to us and cultured to professionally display ourselves as nice and
good and sadly prove to be inconsistent. These are the categories of people who
not only mess their life, but end up in wrong prejudices and in encouraging the
wicked. Prov 17:15 says “He who justifies the wicked and he who
condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord”. The
Making of wicked in most cases happens by such categories of people who live in
contradiction. Some have their defense, saying it is just not possible to
remain consistent and perfect as we are all fallen human being. Did you notice
what Jesus said in Mat 7:11 If ye then,
being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children,….”. which means that we are blessed to have the power of choosing to do right and be consistent. And moreover we need
to thank God for leaving with us the helper, as promised by our Lord in John 16:7.
.Jam 3:11 says “Does a
fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water”
definitely not! Why then we adhere more to such contradiction in life and be
erroneous? Remember if you prefer error, truth will remain dormant, but in the
pursuit of truth, error is always a casualty, unless you want to hold both the
true and false as true. Jesus explained a simple principle in Mat 12:35 “The good man out of his good treasure
bringeth forth good things: and the evil man out of his evil treasure bringeth
forth evil things” How we behave and display depends on what we have
treasured. A good man will bring only good things in any situation. You cannot
even pretend to display yourself as a good person, which is even worse. In Luk 20:20 it has been documented about the people who
pretended. Follow this as it says “So
they watched Him and spent spies who pretended to be righteous in order that they might catch Him in some statement
...” this is documented and even today we come to know that there were this group of people
who lived in double standard. May the
Lord help each one of us to live focused on our lord Jesus Christ who never
changes. Let us be reminded that “Life is one indivisible whole”
God bless