- If you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. Proverbs 2:4-5 – Not surprisingly since we are studying Proverbs, but we see the writer urging us to pursue wisdom. He uses language that points out that wisdom isn’t something that just falls into our minds, but we must pursue it. Words like receive, treasure, incline your heart to it, call out for it, seek and search for it. Yes, it will be work, but the payoff is the Lord’s wisdom. Yet we also see there is another path, a much easier path, a path given to us by the “forbidden woman.” A path that leads to the immorality of the world. It is a far easier path than that of the pursuit of wisdom, but it comes at a much greater cost. Wiersbe put it this way, “There’s a price to pay if we would gain spiritual wisdom, but there’s an even greater price to pay if we don’t gain it. We must walk with God through the study of His Word.” The price of imitating the steps of the forbidden woman by breaking step with God to pursue sin instead of Him is a far easier path, but the price is our doom, and possibly even our death. While the path is more difficult to pursue the Lord and His wisdom through His word, it will shield you from the paths that only lead to your harm. Let us then today recommit to our pursuit of the Lord, breaking any step that was established not out of our obedience to the Lord but through our desire to sin. Since we have such a Good Father that desires our best, why would we ever reject such directions to chase after what only brings death? I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2910
- …who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil… Proverbs 2:14 – Sin has a way of numbing your mind to how bad the things you are doing really are. In our passage it’s says they delight, take pleasure in, the perverseness of evil. The things we all see as perverted and wrong and messed up they find pleasure in. How can it get that way? Well our enemy wants us to forget about how sin hurts us, hurts others, and ruins our life. If you stop looking at how your sinful actions could impact someone else, then it makes sense why someone could find even the most perverted of things delightful. Never forget what sin and our enemy does. Kill, steal, and destroy. Remember it was due to our sin that Jesus chose to die on the cross. Remember how your past falling into sin hurt you and others. Let’s take a different path than all that and begin following the pure path that Jesus is leading us in. Not only is this good for us but also for those we love around us. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 673
- …none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life. So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. Proverbs 2:19-20 – “Her” = sinfulness and wickedness. What I love about this passage is how direct it is. We spoke yesterday on the instruction of a parent, here a parent is leaning into his son’s life. He says, “So you will…” Not be careful to think on or it would be wise to, but so you will. You will walk in the way of the good and you will keep to the paths of the righteous. The parent knows the damage going after sin can cause and he wants his child to never step into that pain. God, our Heavenly Father, knows the pain sin can bring all to well and wants us to never step into that pain. He’s leaning into our story not with a suggestion but a command to stay away from the path of the wicked and close to the path of good. All because He deeply loves us and wants what’s best for us. A good parent seeks the out the best path for their child and directs them in it, here scripture is showing us clearly how good of a Father God is for us. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1684
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