- If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth. Proverbs 30:32 – Chapter 30 is written by a different writer than King Solomon, a man named Agur. Outside of this chapter he is not spoken of elsewhere in scripture, so we don’t know anything else about him other than the collectors of the proverbs deemed him a wise man. We see in one of his final verses a simple, yet oh so powerful, nugget of wisdom being given. If someone had been foolish, if they had been prideful and boasting about themselves, if they had been devising evil, if they had been doing all the things Proverbs up to this point had been directing people not to do…they should stop. Put your hand over your mouth, stop talking, and stop behaving in such a way. A very simple direction, yet life changing if followed. My desire is that people today acknowledge and recognize this can be their story to. Yes, they may have been foolish, prideful, evil, and doing everything scripture says not to do. That though doesn’t have to be their forever story, they can stop. Jesus is able to free us from the bonds of sin and the grip of Satan. He can break addictions, and He can change hearts. With Jesus’ help you can stop. Maybe that’s a message you needed to hear today spoken over your struggle with sin. Stopping is possible with Jesus. Freedom is possible with Jesus. Confess this sin to the Lord, bring the brothers and sisters of Christ that God has given you into this struggle, and lean daily on His help. God can help you put your hand on your mouth. God is able to help you stop; embrace His help. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2938
- This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.” Proverbs30:20 – It’s hard for me to place my mind into the way of the “adulteress” in this passage. To do wrong and then have no regrets or not even to care that they did wrong. I suppose that’s the blessing of having the Holy Spirit, but that doesn’t resolve the problem. We have people in our life like the lady in the verse, people who don’t see their actions as wrong. How do we help them see not only are their actions sinful but that continuing to follow after sin is not going to go well for them? How do we help them see the change they need to make? Live out a clear example of what that change looks like within your own life. Likely you’ve experienced the brick wall of a conversation when you just try to tell someone doing wrong to change their ways. Never forget how much a faithful life following Jesus speaks to those seeing you. Let your life lived out in front of them be your proof as to the better way life can be lived so when the conversation does happen they have an idea of the type of life you’re inviting them to live. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 701
- The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough”: Sheol, the barren womb, the land never satisfied with water, and the fire that never says, “Enough.” Proverbs 30:15-16 – Death and fire. Just two of the examples our passage gives of the “leech.” A leech is parasite who’s only desire is to take for itself. It’s never satisfied like a fire never burns through a forest and suddenly stops on its own because it’s “had enough.” How like this leech are we in our walk? Maybe with God we are constantly saying “give.” Give me help, give my family healing, give me direction. Is God opposed to us asking for those things? Of course not, just remember we’re in a relationship with someone and the giving needs to be both ways. Have you asked God today what He wants from you? What is it He desires for you to do or say? Yes, ask from God because He is our provider, but never forget to to ask of Him what He wants back from you today. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1712
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