Exodus 23:2 You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.

Following the crowd always seems to be the easy option, but when you find out that you all get into trouble anyway, you wonder why!

The options are quite simple really – to do good or to do evil. We like to describe all manner of levels of good and evil but the fact remains, it is good or evil!

Whether it starts with a bit of gossip or joining in to get someone else into trouble just because, the other road is not all it is advertised to be.

God wants us to recognise our failings and to turn away from them. Yes we do need His help. But we can do it!

3 John 1:11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.

It is quite easy to set people who love God apart from the others – they seem to be the ones doing good things, but not just doing good but doing it better.

When I see how God changes people when they get to know Him better, I see this ‘good’ spring up instead of the same old reactions I saw before.

God changes people from the inside and those changes get reflected on the outside; this is how we know people know God!

James 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

If you know something has to be done and you sit back and wait for someone else to do it, who is at fault? Yes that is a loaded question!

God calls us to go out and share the Gospel. He calls us to get up and do things. He also calls us to stop and wait for Him.

We do have to listen carefully to our awesome God… but we must be prepared to get up and do it when He calls us to do it!

He has called us. Let us go forward this year in hope.