Wednesday Reading: Proverbs 18:7
Key Verse: Proverbs 18:7
7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Devotion:
How many times have you tried to justify yourself and failed? I am sure that we have all tried to dig ourselves out of a hole at some stage only to dig even deeper and land ourselves into more trouble. You see, when we try to cover up sin with sin, all we are doing is heaping up and even bigger pile of sin instead of burying anything at all. Only Christ is able to take our sins away and bury them deeper than anything or anyone else because only Christ is Just to do so with His mercy.
The thing that probably got us into trouble in the first place may well have been our mouths because we are apt to say things before we think about what we are to say; we blurt out things that may well bring us down because we want to bring someone else down without thinking of the consequences of what we are saying. We even write things down before thinking giving people even more reason to wonder at what is in our hearts. If we are to survive at all then we should first leave our sin nature behind and focus on God.
None of us like to get into trouble by ourselves because we somehow feel that getting into trouble with someone else is less of a big issue. But think of it this way, if there are two of you getting into trouble instead of just one then the problem has just been doubled! Christ is not going to look less on an issue just because there are more people doing it – think back at places such as Sodom; just because the whole city was doing the same thing did not allow them to get off the hook! God is Just. He will not change from being just. If we can’t live with that then we have to change!
Points to Ponder:
Do you invite others into trouble?
Are you tempting God’s people?
Key Verse: Proverbs 18:7
7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Devotion:
How many times have you tried to justify yourself and failed? I am sure that we have all tried to dig ourselves out of a hole at some stage only to dig even deeper and land ourselves into more trouble. You see, when we try to cover up sin with sin, all we are doing is heaping up and even bigger pile of sin instead of burying anything at all. Only Christ is able to take our sins away and bury them deeper than anything or anyone else because only Christ is Just to do so with His mercy.
The thing that probably got us into trouble in the first place may well have been our mouths because we are apt to say things before we think about what we are to say; we blurt out things that may well bring us down because we want to bring someone else down without thinking of the consequences of what we are saying. We even write things down before thinking giving people even more reason to wonder at what is in our hearts. If we are to survive at all then we should first leave our sin nature behind and focus on God.
None of us like to get into trouble by ourselves because we somehow feel that getting into trouble with someone else is less of a big issue. But think of it this way, if there are two of you getting into trouble instead of just one then the problem has just been doubled! Christ is not going to look less on an issue just because there are more people doing it – think back at places such as Sodom; just because the whole city was doing the same thing did not allow them to get off the hook! God is Just. He will not change from being just. If we can’t live with that then we have to change!
Points to Ponder:
Do you invite others into trouble?
Are you tempting God’s people?