biblereflections

Sunday, May 08, 2005

Prov.1:5

AN INTELLIGENT MAN WILL GAIN SOUND GUIDANCE.
Prov. 1:5

Sound- 1. free from defect or damage
2. solid
3.financially secure or safe
4. based on solid reasoning
5. thorough; complete.
6. deep and undisturbed.

I am excited, I am happy. All week I have been praying on Proverbs 1-4 and my eyes are being opened to the beauty of knowledge and wisdom and fear of the Lord.
It seems to me that walking in foolishness is similar to walking in a swamp. It is foggy, and your feet sink deep in the mud so every step takes a huge amount of energy and strenght. To make it worse there is the constant fear of a snake coming out...
That is what my life has been like. Constant fear and a huge struggle. Some of the steps that I have taken have been so wrong that the mud has completely covered me and life was about to be taken out when one of God's angels would drag me out.
Even though I continued to walk and continued to move on, I constantly wondered if it had to be like this all the time.
The answer is: NO
God is wise, if we listen to His voice we can avoid a lot. Yes, life will not be preatty pink. We live in a swamp, the world has fallen into sin...but there are many ways to move about in a swamp. Now there are even special boats for swamps!!! So, my prayer is that we may be allowed to get on a swamp boat.
My lack of resourcefulness, knowledge and discretion has often taken me into life threatening situations.
Yes, Jesus was crucified and reviled, but if you observe him closely you will often find that he would say "it is not my time to die yet" and because He had SOUND GUIDANCE he was able to stay alive until the appointed time.
I think of Paul. He did not have a preatty pink life. He had a rough time, but he had SOUND GUIDANCE. So when his time came he was able to say:
I HAVE RUN THE RACE,
I HAVE KEPT MY FAITH.

that is what I want to be able to say at the end of my days.
I do not want to get sucked up by the swamp.
I do not want the poison of bitterness to kill me before my time.
I am a butterfly that lives in a swamp, a most extraordinary kind, I must fly.

I will seek God for His SOUND GUIDANCE.
Then I will fly.