March 13, 2024 – Play With Fire, You Will Get Burned

Play With Fire, You Will Get Burned
March 13, 2024

DAILY PROVERB:

Proverbs 6:25-28
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

 

OUTLOOK ON THE IN BOOK:

        Almost everyone has heard the phrase at one time or another, “if you play with fire, you’re going to get burned.” Oh, how true that is.

      When I was a very little boy, I am told that I leaned over a hot flame somehow and burned a place on my stomach. I don’t really remember it happening. I know I’ve never done it again, so I must have learned a lesson not to do so. However, the memory was part of a very early childhood that I, like most, don’t remember. I might have been 2 or 3 years old at the time.

      So, what would cause my parents to bring this up and tell me about it? Could it be they wanted to be certain that, as I grew older, I would never be burnt again? Not exactly. Did they somehow get a kick out of telling me how careless I was at a young age? No! I was a child, not so much careless as I was just curious. So why did they feel a need to share the story with me? It was because, on my stomach, there is a one-inch square area that is lighter than the rest of my skin there. I had a scar and wanted to know where it came from, so they told me. As a young boy, I felt a bit self-conscious about it. Today it’s almost unnoticeable unless I point it out. Nevertheless, it’s still there.

      Solomon tells his son in today’s passage that sexual sin will always do to you the same as the fire did to me. Although the sinful act may be far behind you, it will scar you for life. Someday it might not be as noticeable or memorable as before, but it’s always there, burned into your memory. Just like that scar on my belly.

 

THE WORD WALKING IN ME:

   So how do we keep this from happening? Well, it’s simple. If I had not leaned over the flame, I would not have the scar. If we stay clear from sexual sin, we will never have to carry any of the scars.

 

A scar a a place that has healed, but aren’t the memories real?

 

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: MARCH 13, 2024

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH A DAILY PROVERBS
    Deuteronomy 25 – 28
   Proverbs 6:25 – 28

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
  Numbers 30-31
  Mark 14:1-16