The Devotional
Comment:
Where does time go? Is it stored in capsule or can a person
go to a hall where wide screen pictures of one’s past are on display? Since
time began, much has happened in the world around us. How then does a person
live in a world (mostly of secular experience) and maintain a working faith in
God? God has placed the thought of time and eternity in the souls of every
human; Ecclesiastes 3:11 and mankind does everything they can to suppress that
truth in unrighteous activity, Romans 1:18. So we will look briefly at godly stewardship,
or godly time-management. Now many instructional books have been written on how
to live life, but the one that works is the Holy Bible and “my, Oh My”; how the
world around us ignores it.
Challenge:
In the Book of
Proverbs, Solomon is teaching his son(s) to live skillfully in the world. Some
in the past have said that Proverbs, the book; could have been titled “Skill in
Living”. If we would take a look at the secular credentials of what it takes to
have “skill in living” that is, to live life successfully in the world around
us. We would find that there are very few biblical references of solid
stewardship to govern how one is to live in time and manage relationships.
In the King James
Version of the Holy Bible the word “void” is found six times in the Book of
Proverbs and over this and five other devotionals we will look at each one
since along with the word void we also find the word “understanding” and in the
middle of those two words is another word “of”! And the Bible clearly says that
we should understand what the will of the LORD is.
Someone has said
to me recently that we “Believers in God” have become “sloppy” with our ability
to live in an among the “believers of the world”; he further said that we
preach heavy on spiritual matters and light on the things that make the world “tick”.
My first thought is that if one wants to know how the world ticks, than they
should go to worldly realms of study and find out. Or just set at home and
watch television.
The Holy Bible
however does cover the issues of secular life so we should take a look.
Proverbs 7:6-7
(NKJV) – For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice, and saw
among the simple, I perceived among the youths, a young man devoid of
understanding.
Proverbs 7:6-7
(NIV) – At the window of my house I looked out through the lattice. I saw among
the simple, I noticed among the young men, a youth who lacked judgment.
In reading we know
that there is a lack of moral character in one young man. In Solomon’s day this
was the norm. Notice this in the verse (I perceived among the youths) or (I
noticed among the young men). Solomon saw more than one young man. In our day
if we took the moment to observe the young men around us, we would see the “group
and they would all, but ONE” be void of understanding. The moral fiber of our
young today is more like over cooked spaghetti!
Now, speaking of
today the “group” and the “one” were all instructed in the skills of living, so
why do we see so much sexual bondage and destruction of life in our young
today? Simply it is the “brew of instruction” in the secular realm that young
people today learn from. Proverbs 7 is biblical instruction for mankind to
abstain from immoral activity, while secular humanism today teaches man to turn
his or her heart to “experience” rather than “abstainance” from the ways that
destroy.
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