Just Do It Now!
"She caught him by his garment, saying,
“Lie with me.” But he left his garment in
her hand, and fled and ran outside."
Genesis 39:12
The time to buy life insurance is not the day you die.
The time to install smoke detectors is not while your
house is on fire. And the time to develop
convictions
about holiness is not in the midst of an emergency. In
all those examples, it’s too late. Or, at the very least,
it’s much harder after the fact. It’s easier to
prevent
a crisis than to recover from a crisis.
Somehow, Joseph was prepared for the crises that hit him in
Egypt—the most serious being a full-on attempt at seduction
and immorality by the wife of his owner, the man who trusted
all to Joseph. When Potiphar’s wife tried to tempt Joseph to
immorality, he did what Paul would later advise Timothy to
do when faced with temptations: “Flee!” (2 Timothy 2:22)
Joseph took the only way of escape open to him: He fled!
(1 Corinthians 10:13)
Draw a biblical line in the sand today, beyond
which you won't go. Don’t wait for the crisis to
consider your convictions. The time is now.
"No temptation is more frequently
before us than that of easing up."
Sinclair Ferguson
