You Know Better

You know better.

Who among us hasn't heard those words spoken to us by another, usually the first time we hear them it's from one of our parents, right?  They are our first influence towards knowing right from wrong. They teach us what is right and point out things that aren't right. 

Just recently I was visiting my great nephew, who will be a year old very soon and I witness the interaction between his mother and him as she already at that very young age began to teach him the things he should touch and the things he shouldn't.  Our learning what is good and what is bad starts right away and once we understand, once we have the comprehension of something being wrong and it's not a matter of our forgetting, but rather choosing to ignore what we've learned, then we are accountable for that wrong.  Am I saying a baby is accountable in an eternal way? No, I'm saying that on an individual basis everyone grows to that age of accountability.

When you know better and still choose to do something you know better than to do, you are accountable for that choice.

It's not until a child realizes what sin is (at whatever age the child can comprehend 5, 6, 7, 8 older, younger,) only then is the child accountable for committing a sin. Just as adults who are mentally deficient because of a birth defect, accident, or other reason they might never get to a place of comprehending sin as being the breaking of God's commandments. It's the knowing better and still doing it that brings forth the accountable sin.

And just as we know wrong is wrong, we know good is good and if we deliberating withhold good we are SINNING. It is more than keeping from doing evil, if we refuse to do good that becomes evil. This is truth!

Jas 4:17  Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.    TRUTH!

Luk 12:47,48

And that servant, which knew his lord's will,

and prepared not himself,

neither did according to his will,

shall be beaten with MANY stripes.

But he that knew not,

and did commit things worthy of stripes,

shall be beaten with FEW stripes.

For unto whomsoever much is given,

of him shall be much required:

and to whom men have committed much,

of him they will ask the more.

TRUTH!

Joh 9:41  Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.    TRUTH!

Joh 15:22  If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.       TRUTH!

Rom 1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Rom 1:21  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.   TRUTH!

We know better.

We know we are to do good and abhor evil.

By the grace of God, through the Holy Spirit may we keep from sinning by withholding good.

Bless us Father! Keep us in YOU always in all things!

In Jesus' name, in Jesus' love!

Always!