I hope today’s lesson can be of use to youth ministries, family devotionals, family counselors, and family home evenings. Please feel free to use any of these entries in any way that would help promote the caliber of your family unit.

For my teaching embellishments blog, I’m always excited to reference the ideas and talents of other people. There was a wonderful image that was used at church this week of how the use of a ladder can be compared to a man cannot serve two masters. When one is painting and doing construction work on a house, a ladder is leaned against a particular wall to get access to where you need to work. A ladder can be placed against the left wall or the right wall and be functional. It cannot be leaned against both walls simultaneously.

Just like a ladder needs to have one purpose, so we as individuals need to have only one master that being God or Satan. Our choice of who leads us is illustrated by our word choice and our actions in our associations.

The steps of a ladder could be compared to our levels of progression of living their lives.

There are many people that have a favorite sports team. It’s obvious where their passion lies. You can sometimes see it by their attire, their conversation and their participation. They will know the members of the favorite team and their stats. They will know important points of history of that team’s career. So we as individuals who endeavored to live Christian lives would talk the talk and walk the walk. That is, if we are sincere in our efforts and if we are not just a once-a-week Christian.

Our choice of how we live our lives is a very popular theme in church or in our efforts to repair a relationship. Please feel free to share some ideas of how you think someone could more successfully live a moral life.