Sunday 27 Oct 2013

Sunday Reading: Proverbs 1:20-23

Key Verse: Proverbs 1:22
22  “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge.

Devotion:
It is a sad sight to see so many people walking round without knowing Christ; to see so many people trying to find the right way of doing things, trying to get life right… only to find themselves wanting because life cannot give them what they are looking for! These word highlight the fact that Christ has made His Word known on the streets, He has given us His Word, and yet we continue on in our own vain imaginations thinking that we should be able to work things out by ourselves in some way.

I love it that the word used to describe our ways means foolishness or silliness, yet man has chosen to use a kinder word, simplicity. Sometimes we have to stop and tell people the truth so that they will actually listen. We are fools for not following God’s Word in the beginning and fools for not turning our backs on the worldly ways. We live in this world and we die in this world, so why not make a difference in this world?

If we are willing to listen to Christ then we will find out that He is willing to teach us. He has promised to give us what we need and to allow us to learn what we need to know… if only we will listen to Him in the first place! When God shows you that you need to change, you had better start listening to Him as He tells you how to change. If you heard a policeman running down the road yelling out to people to take cover because of a bomb threat, you would take cover! So why do we ignore Christ?

We are not all made the same. We think in different ways and we live in different ways. Christ knows our differences but He has given us His Word that can be applied to all of our lives – not to make us all the same but to teach us how we can be different and always know that there is only one truth; that He is God’s Son and that He loves us and wants us to know the truth. Let us make a difference by using our differences to reach out to others.

Points to Ponder:
Do you look to yourself?

Or do you look to God?