Wednesday 6 Oct 2010

Wednesday Reading: Proverbs 1:10-19
 
Key Verse: Proverbs 1:19
19  So are the ways of everyone who gains unjust gain; it takes away its owners' life.

Devotion:
No matter how much you try to convince yourself that something is right when it is clearly wrong, you will always have something inside of you reminding you that is was not right. It may not stop you from doing that wrong but it will always then be with you afterwards. That sort of feeling or knowledge will continue to eat at your soul every day and can make you quite depressed. When we say to someone that honesty is the best policy we are probably calling on many years of learning the hard way that doing things dishonestly will not only get you found out but will eat at your soul day by day.

Our problem is that we are going to be surrounded by people who are going to say that it doesn’t matter to do one simple thing wrong because they have done it many times before. Just because they have done it many times before, that does not make it right! The reason why they are now trying to convince others that they too can do what they did is because they feel very alone being the only ones who have done wrong. They feel that if they can get more people on the same side of the fence then maybe they will not feel so bad... Well guess what; the only thing that is going to happen s that you all have that same feeling eating at your soul day by day.

No matter how much we fill our lives with fancy gadgets or shiny and precious items, none of them will be able to lift up our souls to the extent of knowing that what you have done is right! Nothing is going to feel any better than knowing that you have done the right thing. Not just because you have done it for yourself but because you have glorified God in doing righteous things rather than giving in to the temptations of sin around you. God wants each of us to know Him and to know His will in our lives. His will is that we do do things right so that we will not separate ourselves from Him!

Points to Ponder:
What ails you?
 
Do you aim to please God?