The Devotional - A Look at the Book #804

by Jesse Abel

A Word from Papa “J”

 

Traveling the World Wide Web highway has a dangerous drawback! The more time you spend touring this unrestricted road, the less time you will spend traveling the Eternal Supernatural highway. Proverbs 15:19

 

Good Morning

 

I remember that when I lived in Hawaii that one day while working in my yard I heard a buzzing sound that seemed to be coming from the curb. On that day I paid it no mind, but as the days past and since I had been alerted to the sound I heard it whenever I drove into the driveway. One day a few days later I decided to find out just what the problem was.

 

Coming into the driveway was a capped pipe that contained the water main valve that supplied water to the house and this is where the noise was coming from. I began working with the cap to see what was making the noise and my neighbor across the way shouted, STOP! Of course I immediately froze in the eighty-five degree weather.

 

He came over and said, in Hawaii, we do not stick our hands in unknown places. I have experience at this sort of thing move away please. Actually he and I did not get along well as neighbors since his son was always fighting with my son and this big Hawaiian and me always argued over the things the two boys did.

 

My neighbor took the cap from the top of the pipe and without hesitation, stuck his hand in the hole and checked the valve. “All is well” he said and then he pulled his hand out. It was full of “fire ants”. He brushed them off and said again. “I have experience” these could have harmed you, I have some chemical to put on them and they will be gone.

I do not know if you give it much thought or not, but if your mindset is to search out the evil in people it will not take you long to find it. Evil is in every person you come in contact with. In those days I liked finding out the evil in people and shunned the good someone might be capable of doing.

Taking a look at the Living Word of God we find in Jeremiah 15:9 and Matthew 15:16-20 we find that the heart of mankind is desperately wicked and full of evil, so you do not have to look very far in a person to find the evil, all you really need to know is that evil is present in all of us.

 

So I am thinking, how many people I know who claim to be believers in Jesus Christ who are actively involved in searching out the resident evil in people, unfortunately I know a few. They search the unbeliever and find all sorts of evil present also they search out the believer and find out that the resident evil in that life is healthy as well. Romans 2:1-9.

 

Allow this sort of judging to go on and on these folks will have very little to do with relationships with one another because they always find fault and reveal their partiality. They may even struggle with their relationship with the LORD Jesus and this is because the LORD calls all of this “I spy syndrome” “Judging” and judging is a sin that is found in RELIGION and not in RELATIONSHIP. Romans 2:10-16.

 

Spiritual vitality suffers greatly when we judge people, judging is almost always initiated for the smallest of reason, but grows into a very large cancer. It is found in families all across the world, even in local neighborhoods and it is found in church families too. Notice what the writer of Hebrews says in Hebrews 12:12-17 and give your spirituality a boost in the right direction. If you are prone to search out the evil in people, remember this; if they were to search you out they truly would find in you what you are looking for in them.