Posted on 10/14/2019 6:57:33 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him” (Proverbs 14:2 KJV).
“He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD,” the reason that people walk uprightly is because of “the fear of the Lord.” Romans says that “there is no fear of God before their eyes.” And that is essentially the problem with America. They do not fear God, they do not fear judgment, they do not fear justice; they have been deceived into thinking they can beat it. They have a weird humanistic philosophy that says that they are the master of their own fate—and that simply is not true.
They are dealing with God and the Devil, not chance, or just the physical realm—they are dealing with the spiritual laws which they do not understand.
“. . . but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him,” despises whom? Despises God. A crooked man despises God obviously because he revels in his crookedness, and God rebukes his sin. John tells us that light has come into the world but that men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. They don’t like God, and they don’t like anyone telling them about God. That flat out don’t want to be bothered in their perverseness.
Noah condemned the whole world by building a boat. They were all doing wrong, and his building of the boat stood as a constant reminder to them of it and warned of coming judgment which they were not interested in hearing or heeding. Noah was separating himself from them, he was not doing what the local crowd was doing, and he was preaching judgment to them all day long, and they didn’t like that. “We are not as bad as you seem to think we are!” And that is the way this old world still looks at it.
“There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness” (Proverbs 30:12).
They are not clean, but they are vile and filthy.
Let’s read a chapter of Proverbs a day and see what God might have for us. As the Lord leads, share with us what God has shown you in a special way and by His grace let us build up a devotional repository. Let’s keep our knives and forks handy for some daily bread!
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