My Choice

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
CHOICE

Prov 7:10-20
10 Then out came a woman to meet him, dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent. 11(She is loud and defiant, her feet never stay at home; 12 now in the street, now in the squares, at every corner she lurks.) 13 She took hold of him and kissed him and with a brazen face she said: 14 "I have fellowship offerings at home; today I fulfilled my vows. 15 So I came out to meet you; I looked for you and have found you! 16 I have covered my bed with colored linens from Egypt. 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon. 18 Come, let's drink deep of love till morning; let's enjoy ourselves with love! 19 My husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey. 20 He took his purse filled with money and will not be home till full moon."
NIV
The continuing story about the young man, the youth, the new born believers, the immature believer no matter of any amount of time they have spent believing, is laid out here. The importance here is to see how the world lays out traps; even the trap of saying it has devised a way to bring peace between me and God. That would be the religious world, which would say that, it would be those trappings disguised within those denominational rules and regulations which cry out “I have fellowship offerings at home” which is to say, “ I have ways to make peace with God”. The world sets it trap and the immature believer falls head over heels in love with her ways because she, the world has established a setting, a false sense of security in which a believers think he can have peace with God while all the time being engaged with this wayward world and all its pleasures. Oh sure do I enjoy my coffee, my chocolate, my model railroad, my golf game, my home, car, and others nice things? Yes, but that is not the pursuit of my life, my goals, my ambitions, or my focus and reason for what I do what I do. I desire not to spend my life in the pursuit of personal pleasure for the sake of personal pleasure. I have not engaged in the storage of material wealth for the purpose of long term personal use. The world’s way lead only to the path of personal destruction. The world wants to embrace me, make love to me, and drain me of all that I am, with its false promise of enjoyment. The world, even some houses claiming to be God’s try to convince me Jesus has gone away and will not return for many years, so live it up, I have time to enjoy myself and when I am old and feeble ready to face death, I still have time to actually make it right with God. But alas, that is not truth, I need to be ready at all time. Can I still enjoy my coffee, my railroad, my golf and some of those other things? God has provided them for me to have, but my focus is serving him, to write, to teach, to preach his word to others, to be useful to his kingdom as he see fit how to use me, when and where, in his timing and place. I dare not run ahead nor lag behind, but walk beside him as he leads the way. No, way world, I do not love you nor will I allow you to persuade me that you actually love me. I know you are full of tricks and ways to actually destroy me, to bring me to death. You will fail, God will win! It is my choice.