SCRIPTURE READING: LUKE 15: 11-32
FOCUS: “But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.” (Luke 15: 30)
MEMORY VERSE: “When peer pressure compels you to go with the crowd and sinners invite you to join in, you must simply say, “No!”” (Proverbs 1: 10 TPT)
Our Focal Scripture gives an insight into the mistake of the prodigal son. According to the elder brother, the prodigal son devoured his living with harlots. Harlots are women of easy virtue. Their business is to provide ungodly pleasure. So, the prodigal son made the mistake of setting up a system of ungodly pleasure for himself. He set up a system that took from him and never gave to him. He set up a sinful system that depleted him.
Friend, one mistake you must avoid as you seek better days ahead of you, is the mistake of ungodly pleasure. You may find yourself in the midst of those who seek to drag you into ungodly acts and ungodly pleasure, but give them no attention. You may come in contact with those who are experts in perversion and immorality, but make no room for them to gain grounds in your life. You may encounter men who encourage waste; avoid them.
The prodigal son had resources that he could have invested in order to gain more profit, but he went for pleasure instead and he ended up devouring what he could have multiplied. He set up a system of negative pleasure that consumed what he could have multiplied. If all you do is to set up systems of pleasure that devour what you have in your hands, you may never be able to multiply what God has put in your hands.
Be intentional to refrain from relationships and connections that create systems of waste and reduction around you. Be intentional to create systems that multiply rather than systems that deplete. Be intentional to avoid activities that will help you devour what you should be multiplying. Do away with the voices that urge you on in sinful pleasures that deplete your resources. Do away with ideas that encourage sinful and ungodly pleasures.
Remember, it began with ungodly pleasure, but in a matter of time, all that the prodigal son had, had been devoured. Don’t make yourself a victim of ungodly pleasure. Don’t allow sin to devour your resources.
FURTHER READING: PROVERBS 1
DECLARATION:
- I will not bow to ungodly pleasure, in Jesus’ name!
