PROFITING FROM PROVERBS

“Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble" (Proverbs 4:10-12).

Do you know what you know? You know that God's right no matter anything else. You have to like that because at least you can then go ask God what's right and wrong. Some of us grew up around religious leaders enough in some churches that you could go ask the priest what was right versus wrong and you couldn't get a straight answer if you paid him. Right? It's true.

Your 5-year-old children know right from wrong many times better than those political candidates running around making promises about how they are going to make things better for everyone. Do you know why that’s true? Because you have trained them to honor the word of God. Because they have the godly examples of their mom and dad over them.

“I have led thee in right paths. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened,” the straight gate, the narrow gate. “Thy steps,” when you're walking with the Lord, if you're doing the right things, the Lord will not close you down so that you can't go the right way. You can go the right way.

“. . . and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble,” a lot of people say, “Well, you know I want to do the right thing, but it was just too hard. I realized that I just couldn't do it.” No, that's not true. Paul commented on this. He got on the Corinthians about it:

“O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels" (2 Corinthians 6:11-12).

Do you know what keeps you from doing right? You do. Do you know who closes themselves

Daily Bible study is necessary if we are going to begin our day with the right attitude and the right spiritual diet. Proverbs has 31 chapters, and most months have 31 days, so 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! Ideally, a chapter or two of Proverbs will fit in nicely with a good plan of reading our Bibles through each year.

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