♥ Do Not Follow A Crowd!

When the wicked are multiplied, transgressions increases; but the righteous will see their fall. - Proverbs 29:16.

The English Philosopher and Noble prize winner, Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), tells in his autobiography that he was given a BIBLE as a present from his grandmother. On the fly-leaf were inscribed her favorite passages. One of them was: "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil", (Exodus 23:2). That verse, which she had selected and emphasized, had preserved him later in life from the fear of "belonging to a minority".

This recommendation from The WORD Of GOD that Lady Russell had passed on to her grandson is still worth heeding. We live in an age in which many follow the motto: "Wrong is right if it is what the majority want" or in other words, "Right is what the majority want". What a fatal error that is! How often has general opinion a totally subjective, emotional basis, or it is dictated by purely egotistical tendencies. No wonder that righteousness and morality suffer as a result. If people do not inquire after GOD and HIS will, but make their own interests their yardstick for right and wrong, the  "fall" of which the verse speaks of is sure to take place.

However, belonging to a minority is also insufficient, for minorities can also err. We need to belong those who actually do the will of GOD. We c find HI will in the WORD of GOD, The HOLY BIBLE.

"The world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of GOD abides forever", (1 John 2:17).

Taken from the book, The Good Seed.