Posted on 07/03/2021 3:08:36 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil” (Proverbs 3:7 KJV).
Verses 6 and 7 are a contrast. A person that will commit all his ways to the Lord doesn’t trust himself, but the Lord.
“Be not wise in thine own eyes,” don’t have the attitude that you can handle it, you’re the captain of your own fate, the master of your soul. That is blasphemous folly! That is just being “proud, knowing nothing.” Not only is it pride, it is arrogance.
“Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened” (Romans 1:21 KJV).
“Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise” (I Corinthians 3:18 KJV).
Humility is a tremendous asset to our character. Most people, raised up in the public school system, has had pride inbred into them through sports, competition, and scholastics. By the time they get out they have very little humility left.
“In all thy ways acknowledge him, be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord.” What’s the result? “Depart from evil,” that’s understanding. “And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding” (Job 28:28 KJV).
A good, healthy fear of God will keep you out of a lot of trouble. Not a ‘reverential awe,’ but a real honest to goodness fear of God! That’s the problem in America. People are just not afraid. There is no fear in sin, they see no real harm is a little sin. We fool with a whole lot of the wrong kind of things, but we don’t see anything wrong with it. And that is the problem—they don’t see.
“Depart from evil,” that’s understanding.
Who should read the Word? The young, to know how to live; the old, to know how to die; the ignorant, for wisdom; the learned, for humility; the rich, for warning; the poor, for enrichment. It is the Book for all sorts and conditions of men.
Jonathan Edwards said:
"Nothing sets a person so much out of the Devil's reach as humility."
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For most people there is no admonishment from The Bible harder to obey than this one.
I believe it is why we find ourselves after we have muddled through a project realizing that the reason we are in a frenzy is because we forgot to ask the Lord to help us at the beginning. So often, I think, our attitude is, “Has it come to this?” If prayer for wisdom were our first act life would run so much smoother, Amen?
A dear friend of mine won’t even drive his car to the corner market without first asking God for travelling mercies.
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