The Ungodly Life

This writing today is of the deepest cry of my heart. I write to no one other than myself first. I pray to not just simply speak these words and forget what I have spoken, but to purchase these very words as a fact and a necessity for my walk with the Creator, by the laying down of my life. My second prayer is that you also would purchase these words along with me.


To live an ungodly life does not mean that I have to commit a sin visible to the eye of either myself or others, but means to disregard God. The ungodly life is not just a person that is a drunken murderer, a thief, a liar, or any sin that we mostly classify as “big sins” but is just simply any life that ignores, in either partiality or fullness, the desires and commands of God Almighty. Now we see that the drunkard on the street is living in known ungodliness by understanding that his will goes against the Word, “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.” But, beloved, just as equally ungodly is the man that does not humbly answer God when He cries “But be filled with the Spirit. Live your life in my desires. Let my wants be lived through your life.” So grasp this, dear soul, grasp this Buddy Riddell, every time you feel Gods tug at you to still away and pray or read, and out of negligence, or laziness, or for any other reason, you do not, you are at that point living a life in disregard to God. You are clearly speaking with your actions “not now Lord. This TV show is more important. No not right now Father, this work is too important.” If you feel the smallest tug of God to read His word, or the smallest desire to still away and pray, or if you feel God is telling you to give your last cent, whatever the case may be, if you feel it is God, and you put it off, you are living in disregard to God and that is ungodliness. Let us learn to yield instantly to His desires, for to not do so is to live the ungodly life just as the blatant sinner.

Titus 2:11-12, “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.”