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Friday... Here is a great reminder.


Friday... Here is a great reminder.

Proverbs 11:4 (NLT) says, "Riches won't help on the day of judgement, but right living can save you from death." Now that's some choice, isn't it?

The Psalmist gives some thought to this. Psalm 101:2 (MSG) says, "I'm finding my way down the road of right living, how long before you show up? I'm doing the best I can and I'm doing it at home." Right living is a good thing and it starts at home. It really does.

He goes on in verses 6-7, "But I have my eye on salt-of-the-earth people - they're the ones I want working with me; Men and women on the straight and narrow - these are the ones I want on my side. But no one who traffics in lies gets a job with me; I have no patience with liers." 

And then verse 8 (NLT), "My daily task will be to ferret out the wicked and free the city of the Lord from their grip." And a great way to do that is by being an example.

Back to Proverbs 11, verse 3 (MSG)) says, "The integrity of the honest keeps them on track; the deviousness of crooks brings them to ruin." 

Verses 5 & 6 (MSG), "Moral character makes for smooth traveling; an evil life is a hard life. Good character is the best insurance; crooks get trapped in their sinful lust."

Verse 8 says, "A good person is saved from much trouble; a bad person runs straight into it."

I love verse 10, "When it goes well for good people, the whole town cheers; when it goes badly for bad people, the town celebrates."

I want to be on the right living, moral character. good honest person side of living.

Verses 17-21 says, "When you're kind to others, you help yourself. Bad work gets paid with a bad check; good work gets solid pay. Take your stand with God's loyal community and live, or chase after phantoms of evil and die. God can't stand deceivers but oh how he relishes integrity. ,Count on this: The wicked won't get off scot-free, and God's loyal people will triumph." 

And then verse, 28, "A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree." Just a reminder, it's our choice! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning 



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