January 15, 2024 – It Can’t Happen To Me!

It Can’t Happen To Me!
January 15, 2024

DAILY PROVERB:

Proverbs 1:18-20
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

 

OUTLOOK ON THE IN BOOK:

        Not me! It can’t happen to me! That’s the attitude we all have. Somehow, we believe that bad things only happen to other people, and we see ourselves as invincible. “It can never happen to me.” The truth is, bad things can happen to anyone.

      However, wouldn’t it be somewhat foolish to deliberately make bad things happen and then complain about it? Would you take a knife and start sawing off one of your fingers, all the while screaming and crying, “please stop, this hurts”? No, you would simply stop. Yet, many people today have the advantage of witnessing the harmful effects of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, pornography, greed, and hatred on others’ lives, and yet they continue to fall into the same old traps. Somehow, they believe they’ll be able to stop whenever they want to. That’s just one more of Satan’s snares, as our verses say, “taketh away the life of the owner.”

      I have sat with alcoholics and drug addicts after years of abuse, witnessing their painful withdrawals. I’ve seen the sorrow and pain they endure, hearing their pleas to “make it stop,” referring to the physical agony caused by their addiction. I’ve also heard from people dying of lung cancer, who’ve been told that tobacco is the cause. Yet, they sit with a cigarette in their mouth, saying, “I wish I had never started this.” Ted Bundy, in an interview just before being executed as a sex offender and serial killer, reportedly stated that he believed his lust began in his youth through pornography. What a trap people often set for themselves.     

 

THE WORD WALKING IN ME:

     Will you fall into the worst trap of all? The trap of deceiving yourself by saying, “It cannot happen to me.” That is precisely what everyone else has said. Yet, it happens!

 

Do you beleive your immuned fromt he traps of sin?

 

 

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: JANUARY 15, 2024

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH A DAILY PROVERBS
    Genesis 23-Genesis 25     /     Proverbs 1:18 – 20

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
   Genesis 31-32     /     Matthew 11:1-19