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Thursday... It pays, it really pays.


Thursday... It pays, it really pays.

Margaret and I spent some time in LA this week and as we were coming back home yesterday to Las Vegas we saw on the other side of Interstate 15 a wreck. And it was a bad one. And the line of stopped traffic went on for miles with no way to turn around. We could see all of that. The stopped line of traffic was all the way back across the state line of Nevada. 

Now we stopped in Jean, Nevada and as I was going into the store I was going in with two guys and I mentioned something about the wreck. They were headed to California and it was not a good thing for them to do so they went in and talked to someone in the store and they got some information. As I was going out I went out with them and they told me they were going back to Vegas and then headed to Arizona. They were headed a different way than what they has planned. They still had a chance to change directions. It payed for them to listen to me and change their plans.

Proverbs 16:20 (MSG) says, "It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in God." Now they had the choice to not listen to me and say, "We've made plans and we are going to follow our plans" and they would have been sitting waiting for their way to be cleared so they could do what they had planned. It paid, it really paid for them to listen from someone who knew what was happening.

Now that is why it is a prudent thing, a wise thing to read the Bible, to spend time each day with God, asking His Holy Spirit to open our eyes to see and our ears to hear. 

Proverbs 16:1 (NLT) says, "We can make our own plans, but the Lord gives the right answer." Verse 3 (AMP) says, "Commit your works to the Lord [submit and trust Him]. and your plans will succeed [if you respond to His will and guidance]."

Verse 9 (NLT) says, "We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps." Verse 18, "Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall." Verse 25, "There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death."

And then I really like this one, verse 31 says, "Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained by living a godly life."

Listen, it pays, it really pays to have a relationship with the One who knows what is out ahead. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning




 

   


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