Obstain From All Appearance of Evil

The opposite of wisdom is folly, foolishness or being a fool. A young man came to me recently wanting my blessing for what he was doing. However, what he was doing didn’t look good. He was spending long hours every day with a young lady in her apartment without a third party. They both had attended Bible school and said they wanted to serve the Lord in the future. He claimed that he was madly in love with her. I told him he was taking lots of risk in both ruining his future and hers, and if he really loved her, he should want to protect both his reputation and hers with a third-party rule. Scripture tells us to “abstain from all appearance of evil” (I Thess. 5:21-22). (Lou Nicholes - Missionary/Author).