Never
enable someone to do wrong or keep doing wrong...
It's
easy to see what helping someone who does something huge is wrong. For example,
it's easy to see it's wrong to help someone get away with murder. "If one
is burdened with the blood of another, he will be a fugitive until death; let
no one help him." (Proverbs 28:17, ESV) That's a no-brainer, right?
Right.
What
about the more subtle ways of helping people do wrong?
Edmund
Burke if often quoted as having said, "The only thing necessary for the
triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Sometimes,
frankly, our apathy promotes wrongdoing.
Added
to that, when we fail to do what is right in the sight of the Lord, we actually
praise others who are doing wrong. We may say, "I've never killed
anyone!" but to gossip is to join with the lawbreakers who have killed.
"Those who forsake the law praise the wicked..." (Proverbs 28:4a,
ESV)
We
need to be proactive in making disciples! (ref. Matthew 28:18-20 and
Deuteronomy 6:4-9) We need to not only NOT enable the wrong, we need to do
right ourselves and teach others to do the same.
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| Edmund Burke; credit: Wikipedia |
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