“No one can be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.”

Standing in the face of continuing hostilities is at the heart of Solomon’s challenge to us in this verse. A life built on sin and worldliness cannot withstand that pressure. Throughout Scripture we are instructed to stand firm, and Solomon understood the weight of both the physical and spiritual forces that would come against those determined to take a stand for God’s kingdom. I constantly hear business leaders talk about the temptations at almost every turn to compromise their God-honoring principles. It can be so easy. At times, no one but the Lord (and Satan) would know. Conviction—or perhaps experience—has taught them that it’s not worth it. I once had a young insurance salesman tell me he was being pressured by his boss to backdate a policy. I asked a godly insurance man who had been in the industry for years what I should tell him. He said, “Tell him it’s not worth it.” In that simple reply, he summed up decades of experience. As I explored further, he shared story after story of insurance agents who lost everything because of a small compromise early in their career that eventually caught up with them. Building on sin or yielding to the world never works. Today, stand firm on God’s righteous ways. #BeTheEdge

“Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?” 2 Corinthians 6:14 NIV