Proverbs 7:19,20 . When the strange woman says, “The good man is gone a long journey and will not be back until the appointed time.” she is lying. He is in the house watching right then. God is never departed from us; his Holy Spirit is ever with us. We are compassed by a cloud of witnesses. When we do something sinful we are being watched. Our sin nature may like to think the "good man" has departed, but it is the deceitful flesh (the foolish woman) lying to us. When she says it is OK to watch the TV program with pornography in it, we must realize God is in the room watching us watch it. This is the battleground of the flesh. We must overcome our flesh that so easily deceives us. We naturally want to sin; it is hard to resist sin, to do wholesome things. The struggle is now, at this time.
We must realize the battle is not so hard to win. “Hearken unto me now, LET NOT thine heart DECLINE to her ways, go not astray in her paths.” "Decline" is a good word to describe the process.
Proverbs 5:8 says "remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house" . “Remove” is the important word. Once we are near the door of her house (the foolish or whorish woman’s house) we are closer to it and are more tempted to go in than if we had never entered her neighborhood. Keep away from the neighborhood and you will not be near the door. It’s far easier to choose the right path at the beginning of the journey than to change it once embarked.
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Monday, February 11, 2019
UP THE MOUNTAIN
Psalm 121: "I will lift up mine eyes unto the Hills from whence cometh my help . . ."
When we look up the mountainside, we know our destination will require work to get there. We will have to climb up the hill, we will have to follow a path, there will be boulders in the way. It will take time. But remember, our help comes from the destination we want to get closer to. The source of all our help is coming from that place.
He is helping us on the way along the path. He will not suffer our foot to be moved: so one can push us away from the path, although we could willfully step in a different direction. It says the Lord is our shade from the sun, and maybe God will control the outward circumstances and events along the path.
Yet it is still for us to climb the trail, to sweat, to persist against difficulty
When we look up the mountainside, we know our destination will require work to get there. We will have to climb up the hill, we will have to follow a path, there will be boulders in the way. It will take time. But remember, our help comes from the destination we want to get closer to. The source of all our help is coming from that place.
He is helping us on the way along the path. He will not suffer our foot to be moved: so one can push us away from the path, although we could willfully step in a different direction. It says the Lord is our shade from the sun, and maybe God will control the outward circumstances and events along the path.
Yet it is still for us to climb the trail, to sweat, to persist against difficulty
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