SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/13/2013
7:54 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
Sexual Sin is Gradually Destructive
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Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Proverbs
6:20-24
Message of the
verses: In today’s Spiritual Diary
we will begin to look at the second main point from the outline of Warren
Wiersbe’s commentary on Proverbs. He
entitles this chapter “The Path of Folly and Death” that covers chapters 5-7 in
the book of Proverbs, and all three of these chapters have to do with some kind
of sexual sin and instructions on how to avoid those sins.
I mentioned in one of the first SD’s that I did on the
book of Proverbs that I always follow the outline that is found in Warren
Wiersbe’s commentaries, and that this outline in Proverbs will cause us to kind
of jump around through the book in order to follow certain themes in
Proverbs. In today’s SD we will begin to
look at verses 20-35, which follow the theme of sexual sins and will cover the
other verses in this sixth chapter of Proverbs at a later date. Dr. Wiersbe writes, “We will consider
Proverbs 6:1-11 in our study of wealth and work. Verses 12-19 will be included in chapter 5,
in our study of ‘the wicked people’ mentioned in the book of Proverbs. In verses 20-35, Solomon deals with adultery
and points out what people will lose who commit this heinous sin.”
They lose the Word
of God (vv. 20-24): “20 ¶ My son, observe the commandment of your
father And do not forsake the teaching of your mother; 21 Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them
around your neck. 22 When you walk
about, they will guide you; When you sleep, they will watch over you; And when
you awake, they will talk to you. 23 For
the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light; And reproofs for
discipline are the way of life 24 To
keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.”
We have seen similar words from the book of Proverbs that
are in the text that is before us in this section. It seems that when Solomon has something very
important to say to his son that he takes the time to begin with the words “My
son.” That is what he did to begin this
section too. In verse 21 he tells his
son to bind these commandments continually on your heart and to also tie them
around your neck. With this said I want
to quote an endnote that deals with this subject: “The command to bind God’s Word to various
parts of the body was taken literally by the Pharisees (3:3; 6:21; 7:3; Deut
6:8-9); this was the origin of the ‘phylactery’ (Matt. 23:5), a small leather
case containing four portions of the Old Testament (Ex. 13:1-10 and 11-16, and
Deut. 6:4-9 and 11:13-21) written on parchment.
When attending public prayers, the orthodox Jew tied on phylactery to
his forehead and the other to his left arm.
They also put a phylactery at the door of their house. ‘Phylactery’ is a word that comes from the
Greek and means ‘to watch over, to safeguard.’
It was their belief that wearing God’s Word like an amulet would protect
them from evil.”
Solomon wanted his son, and for that matter his readers
like us to trust and obey the truth that God has put into His Word so that we
would not believe the lie of the enemy.
God gave His truth to Adam and Eve, but they chose not to believe His
truth and thus they fell to the temptation of the enemy and plunged the whole
world into sin. That tactic is still the
same with our enemy today.
By having God’s Word bound in our hearts we will be ready
to face temptation, by having it around our necks we will be less likely to
turn our necks when we see a beautiful woman.
We cannot avoid looking at a beautiful woman when she is coming towards
us, but we do not have to turn our necks to take a second look. Job says, ““I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust at a young woman.” (Job 31:1 NLT)
Having the Word of God in our hearts and minds is like
having a friend with us to lead and to guide us as seen in verse 22 and if we
listen to the voice of God’s Word we will not fall to the flattery of the enemy
as seen in verse 24. Having God’s Word
in our hearts and mind will cause us to walk in the light. Psalm 119:105 tells us that God’s Word is a
lamp, “Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.” In 1John 1:5-10 we read these words, “5 This is the message we have heard from Him and
announce to you, that God
is Light, and in
Him there is no darkness at all. 6
If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not
practice the truth; 7 but if we walk in the Light
as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the
blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If
we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in
us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is
faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and
His word is not in us.”
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: What I have been
taught in this section is to stay in the Word so that I will not fall to the tactics
and temptations of the enemy. The Word
of God is the truth and the temptations that I face are lies and so I must know
and trust in the truth, and walking in the light is to practice this.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Walk in the Light.
Memory verses for the
week: Psalm 121:1-6
1 I will lift up my eyes to the mountains, from where
will my help come? 2 My help comes from
the Lord who made heaven and earth. 3 He
will not allow your foot to slip; He who keep you will not slumber. 4 Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither
slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD is your keeper; The LORD is your shade on your
right hand. 6 The sun will not smite
your by day, nor the moon by night.
Wisdom from Turning Point
for Today: “He who cannot forgive breaks
the bridge over which he himself must pass.”
(Thomas Fuller) “For if you
forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their
trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” (Matthew 6:14-15)
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