Monday 3 June 2024

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Scriptures

Proverbs 1:8-19

English Standard Version

The Enticement of Sinners

8 Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, 9 for they are a graceful garland for your head    and pendants for your neck. 10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. 11 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason; 12 like Sheol let us swallow them alive,  and whole, like those who go down to the pit; 13 we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder; 14 throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse”— 15 my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths, 16 for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood. 17 For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird, 18 but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives. 19 Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

Observation

Parents may not be perfect but GOD has given them to us specifically because of a purpose. That is why the Book of Wisdom commands every children to always heed the teachings of parents because Solomon the wisest King who obeyed his father and mother, says that the parents' teaching - if kept and followed will be like a crown on your head and a precious necklace that you wear. He basically describes their teaching like precious commodity that is not only valuable but symbolizes power and authority. He also commands to not let sinners tempt you to following a different path from what you have already been taught from your parents. He also talks about these people who entice you to earn in unjust ways, shortcuts are only beneficial when you need to physically get somewhere but it does not apply to life because there are no shortcuts to life. 

Application

I sometimes wonder if what my parents want me to do in life is for their gain or for my benefit because I do not see the benefit of working for them if we keep on evading taxes and I keep facing the troubles that they cannot face. When I am loaded with stress because of the family business, my resort is to live the life that I wanted - abroad working and independently living. Because I still want to be independent, but it has to be with my husband. I wanted to get married for such a long time but I have seen that GOD has not granted me this request probably because I lack the character to be a good supportive and faithful wife. I lack the ability to endure in hardships, all I know is that I am not worthy of a husband because I still lack so many things and it makes me sad, that after all of my praying, GOD has not been able to change me to be the best woman yet for the best man HE had already picked out for me. I have been trying to escape the hardships in life because I feel I can never deal with it, but today I am deciding to stay and continue working for GOD. I have to keep reminding myself that I do not work for any human being, I am where I am because I work for GOD. GOD will take care of me, GOD will heal me GOD will provide for me even though I am already starving for the love and care of a husband, I will continue to wait on GOD because GOD is my King and HE knows what is best for me.

Prayers

Dear AVI,

Blessed are YOU O LORD KING of Justice reigning over the entire galaxies in the Universe!!! HOLY is YOUR Name YESHUA Adonai Tzeva'ot! Dear LORD, help me to be content in YOU, to find my peace, my strength, my refuge, my joy, my love, my life in YOU! I need YOU! To keep enabling me to trust YOU to walk blindly in faith and not rely on my own reasoning because YOU know better than anyone! YOU know better than anyone O GOD! Please help me to keep my eyes on YOU O GOD Almighty, please take care of me O GOD! Please carry me O GOD when I cannot carry on anymore... I am so tired of having to listen to many people especially Hayley who tells me what to do... please tell her to shut up because she has no right to teach me anything because she didn't endure with her own marriage and now she has to be in another's business. I pray O GOD, just deal with her as YOU believe. Deal with her, I know she's trying to be helpful but she is also very samok. I wanted to ride alone with AKO last night but she had to be there! as if I needed help, she is pathetic in a way. I pray that YOU will bless her with troubles so she will appreciate her own husband that she left! I'm sorry I am being angry right now but she's just pathetic. I am thankful for the way she helped the siblings gather together to accept Kim, but I pray that YOU will reveal to her her issues and that she will repent and return to her husband if YOU still want her to. Let YOUR good and perfect will be done O GOD. Forgive me for the way I am complaining about her but I am not happy with her at all! I pray that YOU give me strength to tell her what she needs to hear even if she has to be hurt. I pray for YOUR grace O GOD and favor in my life.

Ba HaShem YESHUA HaMashiach, Amen!