Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Proverbs 5:15 says, Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.  I believe that this is a call for us to be satisfied with what God provides.  We know that Jesus is called the living water, and we are told by putting our faith in Him that we will thirst no more.  Still, even as followers of Christ we are not always satisfied with the provisions of God, and we look elsewhere to have our thirst satisfied.  Verse sixteen states, Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.  We are called to share this living water, the gospel of Christ, with everyone.  We are to freely spread the gospel everywhere we go, and are never called on to hoard the gospel.  There is no one group of people who deserve the gospel more than another, because no one deserves salvation.  It is a free gift from God to all who believe.  We are not to put walls around the gospel to keep people from receiving it.  Verse seventeen declares,  Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.  When we put our faith in Christ, we become a part of the whole family of God.  If we feel superior to any other Christian and more deserving of the things of this world, then we have an attitude problem.  Verse eighteen says, Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.  We are told that if we are to be blessed that we are always to rejoice in our wife, though we could just as easily say spouse.  Marriage is not just between a man and a woman, but between a man, a woman, and most importantly God.  We too often view marriage as a legal contract and not a spiritual relationship.  Verse nineteen says, Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.  We are to be ravished with a love for our wife, and I believe likewise by the wife for her husband.  When we are totally committed in a spiritual marriage, we will not be tempted to stray.  Verse twenty asks, And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?  This is more of a rhetorical question I believe.  Solomon was asking why, if a person loves his wife, or a wife her husband, would they person be tempted by anyone else.  The implication is that this should never be possible.  Verse twenty-one says, For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.  There is nothing that we do that is hidden from God.  We might think that we are capable of keeping our sins hidden, but God always knows what we are doing.  Verse twenty-two declares, His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.  We cannot hold anyone else responsible for our sins.  Verse twenty-three says, He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.  Those who will not accept the wisdom of God, which begins by accepting Christ as one's personal Savior and Lord, will die in their foolishness.  This is indeed a great folly.

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