SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/5/2013
10:00 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
Wisdom Protects Your Path PT-2
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Proverbs
2:10-22
Message of the
verses: We will look at the second
sub-point from the second chapter of Proverbs in today’s Spiritual Diary.
Walking with the
wicked (vv. 10-19): “10 ¶ For wisdom will enter your heart And
knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; 11
Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you, 12 To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks
perverse things; 13 From those who leave
the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the
perversity of evil; 15 Whose paths are crooked,
And who are devious in their ways; 16 To deliver you from the strange
woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words; 17 That leaves the companion of her youth And forgets the covenant of her God;
18 For her house sinks down to death And
her tracks lead to the
dead; 19 None who go to her
return again, Nor do they reach the paths of life.”
What we see in this section is the evil man and the adulterous
woman who both love what they do, but what they do leads to death. We see that Solomon describes both of these
types of people in this section, but also tells his son to follow the wisdom that
he has been telling him about in order to avoid these types of people. Both the flattering woman and the evil man
provide much temptation to those who walk with the Lord, and so it is of
necessity to follow wisdom, which also involves prayer in order to not fall to
their temptation. These types of people
have no respect for the Lord but only care about themselves. Paul writes the following in the book of
Romans that describe these kind of people:
and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice
such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give
hearty approval to those who practice them.”
Walking with the
righteous (vv. 20-22): “20 So you will walk in the way of good men And keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will live in the land
And the blameless will remain in it; 22
But the wicked will
be cut off from the land And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.”
Dr. Wiersbe points out that the chapter begins with the
word “if” and then in verse nine we see the chapter continues with the word “then”
and in verse twenty in the KJV we see the word “thus.” So if we receive the Words of God and obey
them then this will give wisdom to us so that we can make wise decisions then
God will keep His promises and protect us from the wicked who are trying to
tempt us.
When we look around the world today we may think that the
wicked are winning the battle, and not the Lord, but all we have to do is read
the last chapter in the Bible to see that in the end that all the wicked will
be judged and the righteous will live with the Lord forever serving and
worshiping Him. Knowing this as Peter writes
what kind of people should be be?
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: We live in a
world that is bent on doing destructive things, and we were born with a sin
nature that only wants to do the wrong things, but those of us who have been born
from above into the family of God have a new nature given to us by our God, and
we have the Holy Spirit living in us as a down payment of what will happen to
us in eternity, and we have the Word of God to teach us and we have the Church
to equip us and encourage us. We have
more going for us than against us and so we need to continue to stay in the
Word of God as Solomon is teaching his son so that we can walk in God’s wisdom.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to learn contentment, continue to pray
that the Lord will keep me from evil, and continue to have the Word of God
transform me to be more like Jesus.
Memory verses for the week:
Psalm 121:1-3
1 I will lift up my eyes to the mountains, from where
shall 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 keeps you will not slumber.
1/5/2013 10:47 AM
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