“Life is one indivisible whole”

“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