Today I began a journey into discovering God's will for life. I will discover God's will for my life by reading a different portion of scripture each day. For the next 31 days I will be reading a different chapter of Proverbs and begin to share what I think is being said through God's word.
Proverbs 1 is a warning against following sinful people and ignoring wisdom. In this world there are people who seek to invite you into sinful activities in order to profit (ill-gotten gains), but the path of those people leads to destruction. If people invite you onto their evil path, do not go with them. For the most part, people know right from wrong, even a small child knows he can't take his friend's toys or cause him harm, but occasionally an adult tries to justify their wrong behavior. This is where wisdom calls out, warning you to repent of your misdeeds and simple ways. Those who don't answer and accept wisdom's rebuke are led to disaster when calamity strikes like a storm. Crying out when calamity strikes, caused by our refusal to listen to wisdom, will not prevent us from experiencing the consequences of our actions. But everyone who listens to wisdom will live in safety.
When we were young, our parents directed our steps and directed us in the way we should go, but as we grew older we were able to direct our own paths using the wisdom we had learned. However, as adults we realized right and wrong wasn't always black and white like when we were children. We found ourselves being led astray and sometimes this meant we suffered consequences for our mistakes. The Bible says to watch our path, to not follow sinful people, and to heed wisdom's rebuke.
The decisions we make aren't always black and white, but with a little patience we can discern what is right and what is sinful, heeding wisdom's call, and not be led astray into calamity.
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