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What would you do in this situation?

Righteousness is right standing with God. Practical righteousness is living right. In other words, when you have a chance to do right or wrong, you choose to do the right thing. Contrary to what many think, we are not superman or superwoman. There are times when the best way to do something right is to avoid it. When Potifar’s wife tried to force Joseph to sleep with her, he ran away. He lost his clothes in the process, but he avoided a pitfall. You cannot  always pray the problem away. Sometimes, you have to avoid the problem altogether. Sometimes you have to “flee” from a situation just like Joseph did. God honored him, and he ended up being one of the most influential men in history. Now it’s our turn to abstain from situations that can hurt us. Stay alert!

1 Thessalonians 5:22 “Abstain from every form of evil [withdraw and keep away from it]”.

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You can’t simply “run into this”

Matthew 5:6 reveals the power and need to hunger after God and His righteousness. We need to be hungry for God’s Presence. For those who think that they do not need God in their lives, they are sadly deceived. Many think that just because they have “book smarts,” they don’t need anything else. Many times, too much earthly study actually will drive people to confusion, delusion and disillusion. There comes a time in everyone’s life when they realize how futile the vanity-filled life is. God’s wisdom is available to anyone, but you cannot casually run into it. You have to really want it. You have to hunger for it. It is only then that you will find God’s wisdom and revelation knowledge!

Proverbs 14:6 (TPT) –The intellectually arrogant seek for wisdom, but they never seem to discover what they claim they’re looking for. For revelation-knowledge flows to the one who hungers for understanding.