JMD Devotional 153 Proverbs 28 The Slippery Slope of Self-Destruction
The first step is to envy the wicked:
Vs 4 Those who forsake the law [of God and man] praise the wicked, but those who keep the law [of God and man] contend with them.
The second step is to turn your appetite from the Word of God to profane things:
Vs 9 He who turns away his ear from hearing the law [of God and man], even his prayer is an abomination, hateful and revolting [to God].
The third step is fostering secrecy to conceal your sins:
Vs 13 He who covers his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes his sins will obtain mercy.
The forth step is to become calloused and loose your fear:
Vs 14 Blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) is the man who reverently and worshipfully fears [the Lord] at all times [regardless of circumstances], but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
The fifth step is to form a double-life:
Vs 18 He who walks uprightly shall be safe, but he who willfully goes in double and wrong ways shall fall in one of them.
You are over the railing and on a treacherous slide when you identify with the lost:
Vs 19 He who cultivates his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless people and pursuits will have poverty enough. (Financial ruin will follow moral ruin).
Dear God,
Thank you for the counsel of your Word. Please help me to regard the railing; to observe the boundaries that protect me from self-destruction and that preserve the integrity of my life and marriage. May my heart be singular; fully devoted to You.
Amen
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Vs 4 Those who forsake the law [of God and man] praise the wicked, but those who keep the law [of God and man] contend with them.
The second step is to turn your appetite from the Word of God to profane things:
Vs 9 He who turns away his ear from hearing the law [of God and man], even his prayer is an abomination, hateful and revolting [to God].
The third step is fostering secrecy to conceal your sins:
Vs 13 He who covers his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes his sins will obtain mercy.
The forth step is to become calloused and loose your fear:
Vs 14 Blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) is the man who reverently and worshipfully fears [the Lord] at all times [regardless of circumstances], but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
The fifth step is to form a double-life:
Vs 18 He who walks uprightly shall be safe, but he who willfully goes in double and wrong ways shall fall in one of them.
You are over the railing and on a treacherous slide when you identify with the lost:
Vs 19 He who cultivates his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless people and pursuits will have poverty enough. (Financial ruin will follow moral ruin).
Dear God,
Thank you for the counsel of your Word. Please help me to regard the railing; to observe the boundaries that protect me from self-destruction and that preserve the integrity of my life and marriage. May my heart be singular; fully devoted to You.
Amen
All (but*) quotes are from The Amplified Bible, published by
the Lockman Foundation. (AMP)
Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
*New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society
**Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. (Eugene Peterson's easy-to-read, contemporary Scripture translation)
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