Good Clean Living

Things were going well. Charlie received timely rains on his crops but failed to fall on his neighbor’s fields. The chickens in Charlie’s hen house laid double yoke eggs and the mail carrier brought an unexpected income tax return.

‘It must be all that good clean living!’

Charlie was blessed but had his share of trouble too.

“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock (Matthew 7:24-25 NKJV).”

Years passed and friends heard that Charlie had died peacefully in his sleep. The small rural church was full on the afternoon of his funeral and the preacher brought a powerful gospel message before the eulogy. Heads of family and friends nodded in agreement. Charlie lived a good clean life. He was respected in his community; a man of integrity, upright and honest.

“The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
More to be desired are they than gold,
Yea, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Moreover by them Your servant is warned,
And in keeping them there is great reward (Psalm 19:9-11 NKJV).”