- Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house. Proverbs 24:27 – A very practical proverb…prepare before you build. For only the fool would stand up and say, I’m going to build a house and start immediately hammering wood together. No plans were made, no supplies were bought, and the ground wasn’t prepared for the build. Solomon’s wisdom was to prepare before you build. Make sure the ground is level and hardened so you can begin building. Make sure you’ve gathered the supplies you need to begin the construction. After you’ve gotten everything ready and together, then build the house. Again, a practical proverb that speaks some great wisdom for all the house builders out there, but does this apply spiritually? Let us recall we too are house builders in a spiritually sense. In Matthew 7 we find the story Jesus gave of the man who built on the sand and the man who built on the rock. This passage was referring to the spiritual life we are building and what foundation we are building upon. We too can be impatient and find ourselves building our life on just whatever seems to hold us at the moment. We can forsake the planning and thinking ahead, and just start throwing things together to get further in life and gain more worldly wealth. God though is speaking words of wisdom to us, prepare before you build. Build on the right foundation and use the right supplies. God is the solid rock foundation we are called to build on and that ground is ready and prepared for us. God’s wisdom and ways are the right supplies to build with and they are too available. Today, begin building and keep building using such things, and then you will begin to see an honoring to the Lord house take shape. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2932
- If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Proverbs 24:10 – So how can we make sure we don’t faint when the struggle comes? None of us want to be the one one the ground too exhausted to keep going when life brings about a struggle, so how can we increase our strength? Lean on a stronger person. In Ephesians 6:13 it speaks about placing on yourself the whole armor of God so that you can stand during the struggle and at the end of the struggle still be standing. Both Proverbs and Ephesians acknowledge the presence of struggles in our life but we also see we can have two different outcomes for our life from the struggles. On the ground passed out or remaining standing. The difference between the two is if you leaning on and taking in the strength of God in your story. Today, find some quality time with God somehow and let Him encourage and strengthen you. He is your means of remaining standing throughout and after the struggle. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 695
- Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. Proverbs 24:11 – Wasn’t sure what your plans were today? Confused about your purpose today? Today’s passage then gives you your answer. Your plans and purpose today is to rescue those who are walking towards death and stumbling to their end. We have friends, neighbors, coworkers, and even family members who today if they passed away they wouldn’t spend their forever with Jesus. What then can you do today to rescue them from this end to their story? How can you tell them about Jesus? Know if you ever want to talk about Him or know how to start a relationship with Him, I’m always here to walk with your through all that. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1706
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