Posted on 10/02/2022 12:39:53 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee” (Proverbs 2:11 KJV).
“Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee” (Proverbs 2:11 KJV).
“Discretion shall preserve thee,” what does it mean to have discretion? That is the power of discernment. It’s to separate things that are different. The red light means stop, the green light means go. That is discernment, that is discretion. There used to be bumper stickers that said, “I will not support any store that sells liquor.” Good luck finding any grocery store . . . or gas station . . . that doesn’t sell liquor or support the gambling industry. It’s getting harder and harder to find good, wholesome family businesses anymore, “I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat” (I Corinthians 5:9-11 KJV).
Any time we can, we don’t want to support sin. That is discretion. We don’t have to eat in restaurants that have a bar selling liquor. In many of them, if you want to order takeout you have to go back and sit at the bar to transact business. We don’t have to sit in restaurants that blast their customers with rock and roll and jazz. That’s just designed to make you eat faster anyway to get the next customers a place to eat.
Some people say, “Well, I just don’t see . . .” That is the problem, you don’t see. You don’t have discretion, you haven’t any discernment to see the right and wrong of it. The problem is that the effects of sin can take place in a person’s life so slowly that they often don’t see what is happening until it is too late. We should separate ourselves from as much that is ungodly as possible, and support that which is right. You don’t want to support that which is wrong.
“Discretion shall preserve thee,” from trouble, and “understanding shall keep thee,” from a mess.
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One of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is discernment, which is sadly lacking these days.
Seems like the gifts everyone is focusing on these days are the showy one, tongues, prophecy, word of knowledge, stuff that draws attention to the individual and not to Christ.
Lord, grant us discernment. Give us the ability to know what is of You and what is of the enemy, and the wherewithal to choose to follow the Truth we see and know.
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