Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Luke 6:17-23
by: Victoria Shephard.
Some of us are so interested in popularity that we may end up compromising our faith. We put our friends, whom we can see, ahead of our God, whom we can’t. Their approval or disapproval is immediate; God’s is quieter, delayed. Yet we pay a price in our spiritual growth, and how close we feel to the only One who truly matters, when we put God on the back burner. Are you putting God first in your life? If so, this verse reminds us that, though the world may not approve of it, we are in good company—the company of the prophets of old.