Wednesday Reading: Proverbs 30:2-3
Key Verse: Proverbs 30:2
2 Surely I am more like an animal than any man, and do not have the understanding of a man.
Devotion:
Agur was a man who knew that he was just a man. He saw the people around him and he saw the difference between the way that he was and the way that men of God were. He had obviously some knowledge about men from the bible such as were holy men and blessed men and he had knowledge of those prophets that showed themselves to be different from others by doing God’s will. That is what undid him, the knowledge that he fell short of that mark set by others.
God has given us our bibles so that we too may find out that we do fall far short of the mark of the man that He created in the first place. God created Adam as a man who was wise, understanding and who communed with Him. He was good enough to be in God’s presence... Nowadays it is sometimes hard to find an example of a good man from our point of view rather than from God’s point of view. Our measure by which we judge others is but a yard stick in comparison to the measure set out by God.
Adam filled his mind with things of God and His ways. We now fill our minds with so much junk what we do not have room for the things of God. We fill our minds with so much junk that it spills out all over the place without us realising just how much of a mess we are making! Agur began to see the folly of his own existence. He began to see just how far short of God’s mark that he fell. When we start to discover that our ways are so corrupted with the world around us we can then start to realise how important God’s ways are. He has laid down His ways in our bibles so that we may know them. It is our decision to follow those ways and leave the worldly ways behind. If we do anything else then we follow the foolishness that Agur began to see that surrounded him. The foolish ways of man will never amount to anything after his death – that is the place that we should fear, not the now but the when...
Points to Ponder:
Do you consider yourself to be good?
How do you think God sees you?
