Hello there!
Sin’s pleasures possess a great appeal, isn’t it? Many of those “come-ons” have 
not only blocked the complete blessings from God but also brought huge headaches to one’s own life and the lives of many as well. They can deceitfully appear to be a big and wow bargain at the start but as one “blindly” get along with it (hello!!), the hidden trouble of its expenditure would catch up! The seemingly great appeal will now turn into a great cost.., eventually.., to drive one into a lower, decreased and perhaps insignificant situation pushing oneself quite far away from the abundance of contentment. Tsk, tsk…
Allow me to share a brief lesson about a certain guy from a Christian fellowship who received a promotion that made his income turned into a level of grandeur.., 
so to speak. Some of his companions made him want to upgrade his way of life materially. He learned to have a large credit to enjoy many purchases, as he can now pay for it anyway. Whatever the rich guys of his time did, he also did and follow. Sometimes he even edges the others to the increase of his heart delight. Those prominent cruises, great vacations, new house and latest furniture, expensive shopping trips etc… have taken his full attention. And…, it happens. When the cash flow of his company suffered an enormous plunge and dive, he.., in turn went behind his payments. In a way.., those things with great pressures put his marriage under tremendous strain for him! It deeply hurts! And his faith so enormously cultivated in the past, have somewhat become pale and colorless. He was nearly consumed with such grief and anxieties.
But in the midst of these all, the real friends that he has back then…, emerged. 
They that continually pray…pray harder for his deliverance. Counsels of truths approached him from different angle, until he finally confessed his sins, cried out to God with all the shame and repentance. He found himself making the right things now, silently following the more significance methods that have been there all along. Peace, joy, prosperity and wisdom have eventually returned to his life. Praise the great Savior! Praise the great Lord!
Those gold instructions of the Lord today indeed apply for everyone! So.., when many ways, from various cultures of the world that are driven with pride and greed comes and whispers…, be on guard!, be on alert, not to share or be enticed with other’s sins!
And just an additional reminder…no one who follows Christ will ever stray from God. Dwell on that!
Shalom!
VERSE-MEAL:
Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. Eph. 5:11
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