March 21, 2024 – Misguided Shopping Trip

Misguided Shopping Trip
March 21, 2024

DAILY PROVERB:

Proverbs 7:11-14
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

OUTLOOK ON THE IN BOOK:

    Yak, yak, yak, when will they ever shut up? I am sure there are some people who feel that way during the sermons on Sunday. Some people just love to hear their own voice.

    In today’s verses, Solomon describes the temperament and character of a woman who is tempting a young man. She is described as loud and stubborn. The difference between merely liking to talk (and perhaps being good at it) and her nature is her evident stubbornness. I am sure we have all encountered such people, both women and men, who won’t listen to reason regardless of the advice they are given. They are determined to do whatever they’ve set their minds on.

    One of the issues in society today is people trying to be something other than what God intended for them. This woman wasn’t content with just being a wife. As Solomon says in verse 11, “…her feet abide not in her house.”

    Not only do we see that this woman is stubborn, but she is also deceitful. Solomon mentions that she’s without; her husband is gone, and she is out parading around as if she were single again. Next, we find her “in the streets.” In today’s terms, you might say she is out shopping. She appears to be everywhere except where God intended her to be.

    I know some might be saying, “Wait a minute, are you saying there is something wrong with shopping?” NO! That is, unless you’re shopping for something God says you are not supposed to have. This woman would not listen to reason. She was shopping for sin. Furthermore, she kept shopping until she caught someone and lured him into her sinful trap. This would have never happened if she had been content with what God had given her.

THE WORD WALKING IN ME:

    God has created for us a meaningful life, and desires to fulfill it in us. Philippians 2:13 “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Who are we to mess up God’s plans? Live for Jesus as He lives in you.

What is God’s perfect plan for your life?

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 21, 2024

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH A DAILY PROVERBS
    Joshua 16 – 20
   Proverbs 7:11 – 14

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
   Deuteronomy 9-11
   Luke 1:39-56