Daily Huddle - Sat Jun 20, 2020 Uncomfortable

Love you all, praying for you,
 
I just love God’s Word – but it’s not always fun, sometimes it’s direct.  It sheds light on the inside, it exposes truth or error in the secret place.  Sometimes it’s uncomfortable.  God’s blessing comes with requirements.  He doesn’t bless unblessable thoughts, beliefs or behaviors.  His Word is a search-light – it’s uncomfortable sometimes.  Proverbs 19:1-3  Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a fool whose lips are perverse.  It is not good to have zeal without knowledge or to be hasty and miss the way.  A man’s own folly ruins his life, yet his heart rages against the LORD.  There are four powerful truths here.  #1  Your lips and your walk are connected.  Your walk cannot be different than your lips.  Your lips determine your walk.  If your lips are perverse – if they reject what God says, or say something different… you will begin to believe it, and your walk will not be blameless.  It would be better for you to be poor, and have a blameless walk before God.  #2  Misguided passions.  Passion without knowledge.  Either passion about the wrong thing, passion for what’s wrong, or passion for a good thing but in the wrong way.  That's how what starts as good can be used for evil.  Zeal without knowledge.  #3  Rushed decisions or rushed judgments will cause you to miss the way.  You could be in the wrong, or spending your effort in futility.  David said, “God, should we go up?  (against their enemies)  and then he asked God again.  “How is the best way to do it, what is Your way, not my way, and what is Your timing for this?”  Zeal without knowledge always ends in ruin and regret.  Whatever you're passionate about - check with God first.  What does He say, what is His heart about this?  #4  A fool starts with his lips.  His folly brings ruin on his life, yet he blames someone else, not himself – even God.  What are you lips saying?  Is it true, or not?  Where is the evidence?  What’s in it for them?  What does God say?  Some people’s inner voice to themselves is always fear or doubt or unbelief or self-condemnation – or others condemnation, or self-absolving.  They speak untruth and discouragement to themselves, and their lives produce the result of what they say and believe.  And it’s eventually always someone else’s fault.  If my spouse would have done this, or my boss didn’t do that, or my friends didn’t do this, or those people did that, or God didn’t do it the way I wanted Him to…  No, your words, and your own folly contributed to your situation, not God’s fault or anyone else.  God’s Word is often so uncomfortable.  It takes humility and honesty to accept God’s truth.  You can tell who does (the humble) and who is already making excuses, or reasons why "this isn’t always true" – (that's what perverse lips do).  Instead of accepting what God says and say OK, LORD what would have me do, they focus on the exception to the rule, rather than the truth, saying something different than what God says.  “We’ll sometimes it is someone else’s fault…  What has that got to do with God's principles for you?  Nothing.  It only blinds us to our own responsibility.  Most people whose folly is causing their ruin, don’t see it or accept it, they continue in it.  That’s why they aren’t blameless, they are heading for destruction.  Praying that you would choose humility before God, that your lips will ensure your walk – that you would be blameless before God, that you would check your passions, to be sure they are what God is leading, not someone else.  That the way you do things would be good and right, God's Way, not yours - that your lips would always be pure truth and love, and life giving – to you and those around you.  So you can walk in all the good that God has stored up for you, that you would be like the first light of dawn shining ever brighter til the full light of day. 
 
Love you all,
dad