Walk Of Life – Day 03, May 2021 – Thoughts From The Book Of Proverbs – MAY

MAY WE FEAR THE LORD AND DEPART FROM EVIL

Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and depart from evil. – Proverbs 3:7

We read of a man in Job 1:1 as “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.”
and we read in the same book 28th chapter and in verse 28 that wisdom is fearing the Lord and Understanding is departing from evil. We need both wisdom and understanding.

For one to depart from evil, one must learn to fear God. James 4: 13-16 says 13“Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” 16But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.”

The plan for his future is just for himself. Why is it like an evil in the eyes of God? From verse 13-16 it is quite clear that God was never included in part of his equation. According to James, this is a kind of boasting because God is not included. That’s why such boasting is evil.

So we must ask ourselves this question, when we go about living our life, do we include or consult God over the things we’re going to do? We can plan to have many businesses. I believe this is absolutely right.But since we are the children of God and God is our master, we must not forget to consult God first. We must not lean on our own smartness or cleverness. This is a form of evil in the eyes of God.

“The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;to Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverse mouth I hate.” – Proverbs 8:13 insists us clearly to hate evil. it is not only to depart from Evil but from the heart to hate evil.

“Depart from evil and do good, seek peace, and pursue it.” – Psalms 34:14. It is not only to depart from evil and to hate evil on top of it to do good by thinking good, speaking good and acting good.

Prayer : Gracious father, help me to be humble. Teach me to show reverence to you with my whole heart. I’m so wretched. Though I long to depart from evil I cling to it at many times. May I depart from evil, hate evil and do good. In Lord Jesus Christ’s most holy name we pray. Amen.