February 26, 2024 – Stay Clear Of The Scary House

Stay Clear Of The Scary House
February 26, 2024

DAILY PROVERB:

Proverbs 5:6-9
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

OUTLOOK ON THE IN BOOK:

        Over the years, I have heard many people talk about a house in their neighborhood that seemed spooky. For some, it was an old, abandoned house, and the story goes that people lost their lives there, and the house was now filled with ghosts. For others, it was a house where an elderly couple lived. Somehow, they seemed angry and upset most of the time. (Could it possibly have been because of all the annoying neighborhood kids?) Nevertheless, stories started to circulate about how they were mean old people who would harm you if you went near the house. For whatever reason, there always seemed to be, in every neighborhood, a house kids did not want to go near. Although the stories about these places were most likely made up and highly exaggerated, the fear of these houses was very real. No one had to beg children to stay away from there; they just did not go there. The fear of what might happen was all it took to keep them away.

      Solomon once again urges his son not to turn away from his sayings. Unlike the stories of haunted houses and mean older people, these sayings are not made up. These are life’s tried and true words of wisdom. Solomon wanted his son and all who read these words to have that same kind of childlike fear when it came to the ways of sin. Stay away from it. Let the fear of what might happen keep you from it. Because, behind every door of sin, there lies disappointment, dishonor, disease, despair, and even doom. You’ll not go inside the place of sin if you never go near sin’s door.        

 

THE WORD WALKING IN ME:

     Knock knock. Who’s there? Orange. Orange who? Orange you glad you didn’t fall for sin’s tricks. Okay, so it’s a bad joke. However, it’s a joy to be right. Right with man, and right with God. RIGHT?

Was there a Scary Place you remember from Childhood?
Is Sin a Scary Place for you to be near today?

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: FEBRUARY 26, 2024

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH A DAILY PROVERBS
    Numbers 15 – Numbers 17
   Proverbs 5:6 – 9

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
   Leviticus 26-27
   Mark 5