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Thursday... Where would we be if we followed these paths?


Proverbs 14:2 (NLT), "Those who follow the right path fear the Lord; those who take the wrong path despise him."

Thursday... Where would we be if we followed these paths?

I know, I know, we wander through life wondering where to go. When I was young my father was a traveling evangelist and it was my job on our trips to look at the maps and tell him where to go. I'm now older and things have changed and I have Waze. But if I am headed to a particular place it is important to be on the right road, the right path. I always hate getting off track, especially in life.


Proverbs 14:2 (NLT) says, "Those who follow the right path fear the Lord; those who take the wrong path despise him."

Verse 8 says, "The prudent understand where they are going, but fools deceive themselves." The Amplified Bible says, "The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way, but the foolishness of [shortsighted] fools is deceit." If I want to go to LA from Las Vegas I don't head toward Utah. But so many people in life are so foolish that they take for sure the wrong path.

Look at this verse. Verse 9 (NLT) says, "Fools make fun of guilt, but the godly acknowledge it and seek reconciliation." Guilt is a tremendous tool of God to show us that we are on the wrong path. Now if the guilt is from God, just acknowledge and confess it and get back on the right path but for sure don't make fun of it.

Verses 12-13 in The Message says, "There is a way of life that looks harmless enough; look again - it leads straight to hell. Sure, those people appear to be having a good time, but all that laughter will end in heartbreak."

Verse 16 (NLT) says, "The wise are cautious and avoid danger; fools plunge ahead with reckless confidence."

And then verses 26 (AMP), "In the [reverent] fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, and His children will [always] have a place of refuge." And 32, "The wicked is overthrown through his wrongdoing, but the righteous have hope and confidence and a refuge [with God] even in death."

Well God's Word tells us where we will be. Yes, there is hope and confidence so let's use it and live by it. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning





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