Posted on 09/07/2021 6:51:30 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee" (Proverbs 7:1).
The issue has never been that man is hesitant to explore new areas. The issue has never been that he is hesitant to move forward. He’s always moved forward to explore new experiences, and not always to healthy ends spiritually. In fact, when you look at the word “invention” in the Bible, it's not like what Thomas Edison did. It’s that men invented strange and terrible things that they've gone off into, and it's messed them up.
The word of God is to restrict you. So, when it's presented as just this big happy fluffy pillow that helps you to feel good, somebody's not reading it right. That is not to say there isn’t passages that bring comfort and job, and there's some parts that make you feel good; but most of it should and does make you feel bad. It's true.
Verse 6, and then He goes back into this thing again. Folks, you talk about a soapbox, the Lord won't let this thing go. He keeps taking us back to this woman over and over and over again. “For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.” So, in a crowd of youth down on the street, he looks down and he sees one that is young and void of understanding, verse 8, “Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house.” Note that verse 27 tells us that “Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.”
Hugh Pyle wrote:
"In Florida, a twelve-year-old boy may be treated as an adult in the fatal beating he gave his baby cousin who interrupted his cartoon watching! Television and video games seem totally appealing to a majority of kids today. Many are enslaved to the Internet, which has destroyed the moral values of many a child and teen.
"The young man in Alabama who admits to flinging his four children off a bridge to their death after a fight with his wife surely received no such inspiration in godly Christian home. A recent paper displays the face of a handsome, talented actor found dead after a struggle with drugs and alcohol. He was called a nice person, but his battle with sin destroyed him at the age of twenty-five.
"No wonder many parents worry. But we can enroll our children in a Christian school or homeschool them, find a real Bible-believing, sin-hating church and read the Scriptures to and pray with them Set a good example. Give them good books and music. Trust God to help, give sensible discipline, and watch God work (see Proverbs 22:6)."
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