August 29, 2024 – Just / Unjust

Just / Unjust
August 29, 2024

DAILY PROVERB:

Proverbs 21:14-17
 A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath. It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

OUTLOOK ON THE IN BOOK:

    “It is joy to the just to do judgment.” In other words, the just enjoy justice. Now that statement sounds way too simple to be misunderstood right. Well, maybe we should look at the other side of that statement.

    If the just, or saved individuals, truly enjoyed justice, then one might logically assume that the unjust, or lost individuals, would enjoy unjust practices. However, it is evident that they don’t. If they genuinely relished unjust practices, they would never oppose those behaviors. Yet even the unjust desire to be treated justly.

    The unjust individuals in the world often end up disliking others who live in sin, just as they themselves do. In essence, they can’t stand people who are similar to them. As odd as it may sound, it’s true.

    The unjust in this world are searching for something better than what they have. They recognize that there’s something out there that will make them happy, so they continue to seek it in worldly pleasures but never find it. Then, if a person wanders in the world and never comes to understand the love of Christ, they will remain for all eternity, as our verses say with “the congregation of the dead.” They will never find true happiness here on this earth or in the eternal realm of the unsaved.

  
    What they need to know is that our loving God created them and sent His Son Jesus to die for them. If they will accept His payment for their sins and give themselves to Him, they can truly find happiness. At that very moment, they will no longer be a part of the unjust. They will have been made just by the sacrificial love and life of Jesus Christ. A remarkable thing happens to them at that point in their life: they begin to enjoy justice.

THE WORD WALKING IN ME:

    Sometimes our problem with unsaved folks is that we forget that at one point, we were just like them. We were not one bit better or worse than they are. We were just like them—unsaved. Then someone told us about Jesus. 

Will we be the ones to tell them?

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage, and todays Devotion?

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

  

GOD TALKING TO ME: August 29, 2024

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH A DAILY PROVERBS
  Ezekiel 17 – Ezekiel 20
  Proverbs 21:14 – 17

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
  Psa. 119:1-88
  1 Co. 5