Reading your Bible for today February 5

February 5: Proverbs 18:1-3

KJV Key Verse: Proverbs 18:1
1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom

Devotion:
The desire of a person can be what separates them from success of failure depending on how they use it. Desiring for one’s own self tends to leave the world around us closed; or rather holding fast to our own desire will close the world off from us as we focus on the things of our desire rather than what is actually required or even righteous. Good judgement then tends to be something others do or something written down and ignored by us.

Judgement can also be what drives us forward toward success, but if we allow it to run forward we then begin to give in to that desire rather than following what is righteous. That is when our world starts to fall apart without us realising what is happening. Wisdom no longer gets the time and thought it should and we seek success and favour rather than what God is trying to get us to do.

God calls this way of life foolish. The world has many other words for it as it promotes it as being the path to success. God wants us to understand what is going on and to be able to work through it so we can once again focus on His will in our lives. This understanding I am talking about here is not the understanding we get from reading many text books and finding out all about how we can succeed but about going back to understanding God in our lives; it is about following your heart as we seek to expand our friendship with Christ.

When we get carried away with desire in our own lives Satan will take that and change it into contempt for everything else in our lives, turning us away from God and facing straight into his domain – the world. Once we have turned toward the world and worldly causes we then feed the contempt for everything of God, losing focus on Him in our lives. It is hard to let go and go back to our friendship with God, but absolutely necessary!

Points to Ponder:
Do you regard yourself as successful?

How is your friendship with Christ?

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