The Devotional - A Look at the Book #766

by Jesse Abel

The Devotional – A look at the Book #766

A Word from Papa “J”

Our Great God and Savior encourages pure thoughts about our neighbors; so devising evil toward them will not promote safety and produce harm. Harm in this case is not sudden and often shows up in the next generation when strife develops without a reasonable cause. Proverbs 3:29-30

Good Morning

One of the men who worked for me in the Navy was a drug addict. When we were in port he was seldom on time for anything, sometimes people would cover for him and at other times I would write him up for being AWOL (absent without leave). If we were at sea he was a good sailor, not the best but he was good at what he did. Now there is a lot of information that will be left out of this little event in our history of this man, but none the less you will get the point.

There is good and evil in all of us; sometimes with evil present, good will come of it. Drugs or chemical usage can be good or it can be evil. For example: Drugs and chemicals used properly are good even though these products can be evil when used improperly. By the way alcoholic beverages are, by self-description a chemical and even though legal are improper and can be abusive. The Holy Bible does not call this improper usage a disease. The Holy Bible calls this dissipation, and dissipation is a SIN. It is having a corrupt nature.

Now getting back to that sailor who worked for me many years ago; he owned a mobile home and lived in a little community near the Navy Base in Groton, Connecticut. I had gone to his mobile home on several occasions to wake him up and even bring him to the ship. It was Monday morning and so I stopped in on him because it had become routine for me to check and see if he needed help getting his day going.

I knocked and knocked, his car was in the carport but he never came and opened the door. I figured he must have left for work with another sailor who used to check on him from time to time. No, that was not the case; when I got to work and began my day, this guy was not there. At noon time I went back to his home. Nothing had changed and I used the neighbors phone and called the police and Navy Shore Patrol.

These authorities got into the mobile home and as the door opened the ready stench of death prevailed from the open door. Both the sailor and the girl he had been dating were in bed and DEAD, they had overdosed on some drug. The estimated time of their death was early Friday evening so their bodies without God's soul, had been there about three days.

Why am I sharing this with you today? For some distant relatives in Indiana and because life is short; life is not about the selfish and sinful abuses that so many people (young and old) get wrapped up in, in today’s world. When we reject God’s very best for us, (Jeremiah 29:11) we open the door for Satan’s very worst. He disguises everything he does to make it look appealing with one purpose in mind. TO MURDER THE ONE WHO FALLS A VICTIM FOR HIS SCHEMES. Notice please how Jesus explains this in John 10:7-18.