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Watch where you’re going!
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Education on February 5, 2011
As I read my proverb for the day, and sat down to feast on the wisdom I might find, my eyes brought me to the last two verses of Proverbs 4. Verses 26 and 27 in essence tell me to pay attention to where my feet are trodding.
“Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all they ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.” -Proverbs 4:26
I like when the word “ponder” is used. It tells me I am really to think about where my steps are taking me. It tells me my daily walk is crucial to my becoming established later. Then the last verse tells me to stay my course. Meaning when I find out what I am supposed to be doing, then I am not to get sidetracked. I am not to go off course, for danger awaits me there.
Man this is clear as day now, why didn’t I learn this earlier, or did I and I just didn’t pay attention. What will you do?
Be wise.
What God hates…
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Education, gossip on January 6, 2011
Labour not to be rich….This is so counter-cultural.
My this is totally contrary to what the rest of the world teaches. Proverbs 23:4 says, “Labour not to be rich:…” , but everything I have been instructed from traditional education to everyday worldly knowledge says the complete opposite, or it is implied that we must work our hardest to become rich. This will give you all the opportunities to have what rich people have. Big houses, big cars, fancy vacations, etc.
I like the way the English Standard Version (ESV) reads,“Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist [abstain].”
The word toil, makes it plain for me, because it means to strive, and it gives me a sense of a frustrating work that is done. Now I don’t believe that what this passage is teaching is not to work hard, or that all work should be peaceful, but I think the later part of the phrase is where we are to bring caution. The motive of our labour, work, or toiling is not to be an end goal of wealth, but we are to work with a larger purpose. Now don’t be shocked when working in your purpose brings you wealth, but on the other hand don’t be upset if it doesn’t afford you the opportunity to have the latest car and biggest house in your family. What God has for you…………..
Is for you.
Be wise.
A Proverb a Day: Proverbs 28:27 How to go through life without lack.
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Education, Inspirational, Money, Work on November 28, 2010
Most people I know have a desire to have everything, and not to lack a thing. Life’s pursuit of happiness is woven in the lives of Americans across the country. We go to work to earn enough to take care of our families with little thought of anyone else. I don’t think it’s on purpose, but the poor get ignored primarily out of the indifference of we people who have. The have-not’s get ignored. We’re to worried about paying our bills, making sure our cars are paid for, and our homes have heat, to worry about our neighbor in destitute states.
Since we’ve been taught so much by the American culture that we need to strap up our boots, and get to work to earn a living to take care of our families, that is what we have done. It’s not a bad lesson to learn, but I would say it is incomplete. Along with learning the necessity of work and responsibility we should have been taught the necessity of giving.
Proverbs 28:27 completes our lesson for a successful life. A life without lack. “He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.” KJV This is a lesson that every person needs to learn and practice. This is the way to go through life without lacking anything. Give to the poor and don’t close your eyes to poverty.
Be wise.
A Proverb a Day: Proverbs 22:8 Have you sown any seeds of injustice?
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Education, Inspirational, Money, Obama, Political on November 22, 2010
“Those who plant seeds of injustice will harvest disaster, and their reign of terror will end.” Proverbs 22:8 NLT
These words leaped off the page at me early this morning and I couldn’t help but think of all the injustices that I’ve heard about in history books of times past and have seen even till this day.
Then I thought about the word, “Those”. It’s a word that is inclusive of everyone and anybody. “Those”, could describe the persons that terrorized the Indians of the Oregon Trail. Or those who terrorized my ancestors for years with in the American slave trade. It could describe how the Rich lorded over the poor and increasingly pushed them lower and lower with unfair laws and regulations, or those who in business cheated persons out of their wealth in order to gain more for their selfish gain.
I could go on and on about the injustices of the Jim Crow Laws, discrimination, wether it be racial or sexual, or the new one they’re using, age. But it is easy to point the finger at those that hs done us harm, but what seeds of injustice have we sown in the lives of others? Who did you cheat? Who did you discriminate against? Who have you harmed, even if it was just with words.
The seeds that we have sown, we will surely reap. Galatians 6, and this Proverb 22:8 says we will “harvest”, or reap disaster. We shall reap a horrible end, if we sow the seeds of injustice.
So it is pleasing to know that the reign of terror will end, if you’re the victim, but if you’re the one who has sown these seeds, then be on guard, your end shall come. We may not know the day or the hour, but the Proverb says it will end.
Has America sown too many seeds of injustice as a country to escape it?
Have the wicked investors like Madoff sown too many seeds of injustice to escape it?
Have you sown any seeds to injustice?
Be wise.
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