Pray For This.

This morning in my 365 Day Bible I come to the end of Romans. Paul is rounding up his thoughts and gathering together his greetings to various people.

He writes in verse 19 (of chapter 16)

"Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I am full of joy over you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil."


Think about this for a minute...

What Paul is praying for is OBEDIENCE, WISDOM and DETACHMENT from evil.

Obedience speaks clearly enough for itself. It is possible to have an idea of what God wants of us. It is the WILL to obey that we need.

Then he talks about being "wise about what is good". We all need a large dose of this.

What is good for us is not necessarily what we go after....an abundance of material possessions might not be good for us. Spiritual insight and service might be the wise things to seek.

Fleeing from evil might be the wise thing to do....that will leave us "innocent about what is evil."

Have a great day,


Peter Clark.