Daily Devotion of Proverbs 17 BILL BRINKWORTH
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So many have never experienced or have long forgotten what it is like to have “peace.” They go, go, and go. Their day starts in haste, and ends that way. The days are scheduled so that one event after another is planned, and there is no freetime. Meals, work, school, football games, movies, dance recitals, chores gobble up their time. There is no quietness for them to relax, “smell the roses,” and enjoy the life God gave them. Because people do not have spare time, there are never moments to be alone with their spouse, family, and friends. Relationships get neglected. Seldom is there ever a time to get apart with their God and learn His will, way, and direction. “Well, we have to do all we do to have what we have,” is often the explanation. Indeed, those things cannot be obtained by sitting around with your feet propped up, but are all those things really necessary? Is forfeiting time with family, yourself, and God worth the price you will pay? The strife and turmoil created by being so busy leaves one empty and drained. One may have done many wonderful things and have obtained many of their wants, but what have their sacrifices cost them? Their children have gotten used to their parents being too busy to spend time with them, so they created their own lives without their mothers and fathers. Wives left alone by always working husbands have compensated by having their own life, excluding dates and personal time with their husbands. Individuals, families, and society eventually grow apart because many self-absorbed people have met their own goals and excluded others. As this Proverb reminds us, it may be more enjoyable and profitable to have less (a “dry morsel”) than to have the ulcers and anxiety that often come from a jammed-packed life too busy to enjoy what they should. Re-evaluate what your priorities should be. Our lives should be more about people, relationships, and devotion to God rather than about things. Enjoy quietness. Today’s Thought: “If we have no peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.” — Rochefoucauld Words to Understand:Abomination: detested; vehemently hated; seen as vileCalamities: troubles; problemsEquity: justness; fairnessEsteemed: thought highly ofReproacheth: to blame; to rebukeReproof: correct a personWhelps: young offspring, as cubs Today’s Reading:Proverbs 171 ¶ Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.2 ¶ A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.3 ¶ The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.4 ¶ A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.5 ¶ Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.6 ¶ Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.7 ¶ Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.8 ¶ A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.9 ¶ He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.10 ¶ A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.11 ¶ An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.12 ¶ Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.13 ¶ Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.14 ¶ The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.15 ¶ He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.16 ¶ Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?17 ¶ A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.18 ¶ A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.19 ¶ He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.20 ¶ He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.21 ¶ He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.22 ¶ A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.23 ¶ A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.24 ¶ Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.25 ¶ A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.26 ¶ Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.27 ¶ He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.— Bill Brinkworth |
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| Read “Free from What?” at https://www.devotionsfromthebible.com/john/free-from-what/When you know and follow the truths preserved in God’s Word, you will be free, but free from what?Prayer Requests: Deb McCoy asks for prayers for an unsaved neighbor who is in ICU.Pray for our Nation to turn to God, follow His commandments, and halt all efforts to advance unrighteousness.Pray for Israel’s protection and victory over violence against their people.Your prayer request could be posted here where people worldwide could pray for your needs. There’s a world out there struggling, hurting, and in desperate need of the Lord’s help. Please pray for other’s needs!Send prayer requests to brinkworth@frontier.com The Current BIBLE VIEW NewsletterRead the current (free) Bible View newsletter about godly women. The articles are “A Godly Example,” “The Virtuous Woman,” “The Ephesians 5 Husband and Wife” at https://openthoumineeyes.com/views23/EmailVersion/BibleView934Email.pdf The FREE typeset version (used as a church bulletin insert or ministry insert is available at” https://openthoumineeyes.com/views23/BibleView934.pdfMobile devices can best view the current BIBLE VIEW at https://www.thebibleview.com/2023/the-bible-view-934-godly-women/The Previous BIBLE VIEW NewsletterRead the current (free) Bible View newsletter about Thanksgiving. The articles are “The First Thanksgiving Proclamation,” “1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation,” “2019 Thanksgiving Proclamation,” “2022 Thanksgiving Proclamtion” at https://openthoumineeyes.com/views23/EmailVersion/BibleView933Email.pdf. This edition will make clear the spiritual decline of the United States, as a nation is usually affected by its leadership! Mobile devices can best view the current BIBLE VIEW athttps://www.thebibleview.com/2023/the-bible-view-933-thanksgiving/Hard copies (FREE Church bulletin insert and e-mail versions) of this Bible View can be printed from the Bible View icon at https://openthoumineeyes.com/ |
| God’s Care for His PeopleF. E. Marsh in 500 Bible Readings He WATCHES over them with His eyes. Psalm 34:15He LISTENS to their prayers with His ears. I Peter 3:12He INSTRUCTS them by His Word. Deut. 33:3He LOVES them with His heart. I John 3:1He SUPPORTS them. Hosea 11:3He LEADS then by His Spirit. Romans 8:14He ENCOURAGES them by His promises. II Peter 1:4 |
| A Little Girl’s PenniesChristain Herald Hattie Wiatt, a little girl, came to a small Sunday school and asked to be taken in, but it was explained that there was no room for her to attend. In less than two years, she fell ill and died. No one guessed her secret until a torn pocketbook with fifty-seven pennies was found beneath her pillow. It was wrapped in a scrap of paper on which was written, “To help build the little church bigger so that more children can go to Sunday school.” For two years, she had saved her pennies for the cause nearest her heart. The pastor told his congregation about the incident, and the people began donating for the enlargement. The papers told it far and wide, and within five years, those fifty-seven pennies had grown to be $250,000, and in Philadelphia, the money was used to build the Baptist Temple. It seated 3,300. The Temple College, with accommodations for more than 1,400 students, was also built, along with the Temple Sunday school, which was so large that all who wished could come and be comfortable. She was only a little girl, but who can estimate the result of her unselfishness and her fifty-seven pennies? |
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