January 1, 2025
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Reading along with us in selections from Psalms and Proverbs? Here’s today’s reading:
Proverbs 6 (NIV)
Warnings Against Folly
1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,
2 you have been trapped by what you said,
Proverbs 6
To spend your money wisely. To not be enslaved by debt. To not be lazy. To work and to rest at the proper time. Seven things that God hates. Thinking this morning watching the news. How can man be so evil To devise such a wicked scheme in New Orleans. For children to listen to their parents who have lived and been through storms. Comes wisdom
Warnings against folly. May our daily devotions allow God’s truth to steer us in the right direction, so we don’t wander towards the path of destruction.
God wants to see us living a life pleasing to Him. He cares not just about our ability to stay away from sin but also how we live ordinarily. He expects us to work and not expect others to just provide for us. There is a time for rest and there is a time for work, and like an ant a good work ethic should just be part of our character.
The list shared of sins that God finds an abomination range from pride to murder showing that it is not simply the sins we act upon He cares about but the state of our heart as well. We should never stand in judgement of someone else’s more obvious sin because that makes us no better and then we become guilty of spreading discord as well.
Proverbs 6. God wants us to be good stewards with our money, to help those in need, but act responsibly with our finances. God doesn’t like laziness either, he gives us time to rest , he uses the ant as an example of how hard an ant works without being told to, God makes it clear of what he hates things that are detestable to him, lying, haughty eyes, hands that shed innocent blood, men and women that devise wicked schemes, men that stir up dissension with lies among brothers.
He also warns against adulterers there is no excuse, you are breaking God’s law with sexual sin when you look and then lust after that person, you are hurting God and the people who love you. We have to be careful not to destroy ourselves through unwise choices or actions.
Amen, Cindy!
The Life of Jesus 4.45 – 4.70; Proverbs 6
Proverbs 6
Proverbs 6
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We should work hard to not let things overtake us, and if they do, work harder to remove ourselves from it. It is easy to get lazy but the person of courage and discipline stirs themselves to get done what needs to get done. And how many of the things that God hates has to do with how we function in relationships. It is wise for us to function according to the standards we have been given and heed the warnings that come from those who are wiser than us. And we should make every effort to be pure and avoid the deception that is in indecency and adultery. The world is consumed with the things of the flesh. God has so much more for us in the Spirit.