The Devotional – 1461 – The Fear of the LORD!
Proverbs 16:17 – The highway of the upright is to depart
from evil; he who keeps his way preserves his soul. Proverbs 16:32 – He who is
slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he
who takes a city.
Comments and challenges
Proverbs, if you are
honest with your soul is sometimes hard to digest; is it not? Verses in
Proverbs are said by many to be words that train us in the skill of living. Now
the question, if you have one and if not I have another for you since I have
already asked one is this. Is your skill in living based on the world in front
of you, or is it founded by faith in the ONE above you?
Believe it or not in
that if your way of life is that of the world, the Holy Scriptures tells the
story that you do not want to hear. The way of the world is evil and the
outcome of evil is total ruin. Many who read these devotionals have lives that
are founded by faith in God and truly as they will attest, there is no greater
joy on this earth then to KNOW that this faith will one day deliver them from
ruin. What is biblical ruin? Being DEAD to God is biblical ruin.
Notice: Ephesians
2:1-10 – And YOU who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked
according to the course (highway) of this world, according to the prince of the
power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among
whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of the flesh and the
mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
But God, who is rich
in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were
dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been
saved). And raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly
places in Christ Jesus. That in the ages to come – He might show the exceeding
riches of His grace, in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
For by grace you
have been saved (through faith), and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of
God. For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which
God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
For you and I who
believe that salvation is by grace, we understand that Solomon under the inspiration
of the Holy Spirit communicates the same message nearly 1000 years before the
apostle Paul. Solomon diction or choice of words may differ, but the message is
the same; notice!
The preparations
(plans) of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the
LORD. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the
spirits. Commit your works to the LORD, and your thoughts will be established
(and) A man’s heart plans his way, but the LORD direct his steps – Proverbs 16:1-3
and 9.
In these passages
for me I see that God has provided a PERFECT plan for mankind and it is HIS
gift of grace for you and me to accept or reject. If you accept the gift it is
not of anything you have done, but it is all of God who has directed our steps
of faith and on the highway of stewardship commit (roll) our works on or to the
LORD who will continue to direct and establish our thoughts.
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