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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
On Guard
Proverbs 14:29-30
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of
spirit exalteth folly. (30) A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but
envy the rottenness of the bones. (KJV)
Another manifestation
of wrath comes in the form or envy. Envy is described as a jealous anger,
as well as contentious rivalry.
James 4:1-3 From
whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your
lusts that war in your members? (2) Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and
desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not,
because ye ask not. (3) Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that
ye may consume it upon your lusts. (KJV)
When all is said
and done, and in many cases more is said than done, the bottom line is
these distractions, ill wills and contentions were things you allowed in; unhealthy
decisions based for personal gain rather than what is best for the body of
Christ. The mindset of the world is to climb the corporate ladder to get to
the top no matter who one has to step over which is the opposite of what
the word of God teaches us.
Philippians 2:3-4
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind
let each esteem other better than themselves. (4) Look not every man on his
own things, but every man also on the things of others. (KJV)
Are we really as
concerned about the things of others as we are for ourselves? The Bible
speaks of the first being last and the last first; in other words when we
put ourselves first, we end up last on the list, out of order so to speak.
So why all the fussing and fighting? If you don’t like the person you see
in the mirror, you have a choice to do something about it. But blaming
others or being envious of what someone else has is not going to get you
where you need to be in your walk.
James 1:13-15 Let
no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be
tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: (14) But every man is
tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. (15) Then when
lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished,
bringeth forth death. (KJV)
And by the way,
don’t blame God for your own situation. You have a choice each and every moment
of the day; we can react in the flesh, or respond in the Spirit; the words that
we speak are either Spirit and life or just the opposite, as the tongue is
described at times as unruly evil full of deadly poison.
1 Corinthians
3:1-5 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as
unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. (2) I have fed you with milk,
and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet
now are ye able. (3) For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you
envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? (4)
For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not
carnal? (5) Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye
believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? (KJV)
Even in the
church, somehow someway, mankind decided serving the Lord was going to turn
into a contest. Wasn’t the whole idea of the church in the first place to
build up the people, not man’s personal shrines, in many cases worshipping
the creation more than the Creator? Just like when I see people that put
their own names on ministries, which basically tells me whose image and
likeness people are following. Brother so and so’s worldwide ministry,
which I agree is their ministry and not Father’s.
Romans 14:19 Let
us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things
wherewith one may edify another. (KJV)
What kind of path
are you walking this day? What things do you truly desire, the things of
God or that of man? One is a path of life; the other is a path of the
blind, which one will end up in a ditch spinning their wheels.
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