Should I Do It, No One’s Watching

“So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin.” We’ve all been there before. You know you shouldn’t do something but you do it anyway. There’s a law working in our make-up having to do with the appetites of our bodies, our flesh. We’ve all heard it said before, the devil made me do it, no, the devil presented the temptation but you yielded to it. Here in lies the good fight of faith that we need to overcome. As long as we are alive on planet earth, temptations will not cease to exist. Learning how to get a handle on not yielding to them takes the help of the Lord. Nevertheless when we do yield to the temptation, it’s counted as sin. There are other times when we know we shouldn’t do something, but we feel it doesn’t really matter, that would be sin for you. In a lighter situation we might litter, throw something on the ground, but you could have just waited to dispose of it properly, and we know no one’s watching, that’s wrong, and it reveals the weakness of your integrity. When we have the opportunity we should do good when it’s in our hands, God’s always watching. In our heart of hearts deep down there’s the scratching that feels uncomfortable before we are about to mess up, that’s your gut feeling trying to get you to do the right thing, go with that. Even when no one’s watching, do the right thing.