Good Understanding Please

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
GOOD UNDERSTANDING PLEASE
Prov 13:15
15 Good understanding wins favor,
but the way of the unfaithful is hard.
NIV
How difficult life is without good understanding. How much must be endured if a person does not have the understanding of the gospel message of Jesus Christ. If fact their life will not endure at all, for in the end they will perish. I know, from my past, that my life was extremely hard with the awareness of death and the endlessness that followed. Without the understanding of the free gift of God, I was horribly afraid of what life would be at the end. I hardly really enjoyed the life I had. Oh sure I was about self-gratification, but I knew it would end someday and I would never ever know that I was ever alive. The way of the unfaithful is hard is just the beginning of a dreadful life. But, praise God, I know have a good understanding, which of course, is an understanding of the Good News of God. How much favor I have already won by gaining this understanding is uncountable. Yet the greatest of the favors is eternal life in the everlasting presence of God. Because I have gained this understanding I know have a personal relationship with God, one on one, being about to talk with him and listen to his great wisdom for my life. Anyone can have this good understanding and do the same thing; I am not the only one. God is available to anyone would desires to understand who he is and what his desire is for fellowship with his creation. Although I was once like many others who have a hard way in life, and who will have an even harder way in death, know I have a difficulty in understanding why they cannot see the simple truth to win the favor of God. I even have difficulty understanding how some believers still cannot grasp that being good is not good enough. I do not know why they must insist they have to be completely free of sin in order to win his favor, for it is not by works, but by faith. Who can live free of sin? If a believer actually thinks that is possible to live completely free of sin they have been deceived by Satan, and do not have a good understanding of what it means to be faithful, therefor would they be considered unfaithful? Do I dare consider this? Surely if they believe they can be completely free of sin, their way must be really hard, either knowing deep down that is impossible, or being deceived into believing they actually do not have any more sin in their life. I know I still have sin in my life, but I also have the favor of God, for I have gained the understanding of the Good News, and I have an advocate before the Father ever making intercession for me, Jesus died for my sin, all of it, past present and future sin. Sure I make every effort to no sin, but I fail, I am human, I am bound to fail occasionally, not that I intend to, or accept it, or make an excuse for it, I am simply honest about it. That is also a part of having a good understanding. I will always chose a good understanding over a hard way.