Devotional: Godliness

Godliness guards the path of the blameless, but the evil are misled by sin.   -Proverbs 13:6

I once read a story in the news, it had a picture of a car half in a lake with a headline, "Woman followed GPS and drove into a lake." How does one not see a lake a head of them and drives into it. Surely people have enough intelligence to realize they aren't on the road any more. See the difference between a dock and a road. Sadly, sin blinds us to troubles and sometimes we can find ourselves sinking in a lake wondering how did we get here.

Sin leaves us blind to many things in our lives and in the world. Sin causes us not to have a heart for the broken, lost and used people out there. Sin tells us that because that person has a different amount of melanin in their skin, they aren't as good as we are. Sin says because they do not believe the same as me, or wear different clothes as me, they are horrible people, cretins and deplorables. Sin leaves us lost. But when we live in God's love and follow is commands, we will start to see how wonderful these differences are.

When we live a life close to God, doing our best to be like him, we begin to love more and are willing to embrace even our most feared enemy. So let's start letting love lead our lives, be more like Jesus, and live godly lives. The -ness in godliness means an action, quality, or state of whatever it is attached to. So in this case, Godliness means we are acting in a manner that is God like, or have a quality of God. And since God is love in all its forms, then being godly should be being overwhelmingly loving. And when we love, our path will be lit with the biggest and brightest light, and our road will be straight and clear. We will never find ourselves lost, and have that feeling deep in our guts wondering how we will get home from here.

From bible.com

Lord, when my road starts to get dark, be the light and make it bright to me. Help me to love everyone out there as you do.