Tiny Devotional for Thursday, 03-28-2024

  A great good morning to all my friends and neighbors in Internet Land! And to family who might drop by, breakfast is a peanut butter sandwich.

He who leads the upright astray in an evil way
Will himself fall into his own pit,
But the blameless will inherit good.
Proverbs 28:10, NASB


How can the upright be deceived by an evil leader?

I suppose the extreme example of this is what happened in Germany, leading up to WWII. How could one of the most cultured countries in the world be suckered into the abominations of the social cleansing policies of the Third Reich? Historians say that the terms of the Versailles peace agreement ending the Great War were unduly harsh on the German people, causing resentments that were exploited by the new leadership. 

Resentment comes when we are FOCUSED on bad things in our past. And when we are focused on the past, we can't see where we are going, or where are being lead. And that, I believe, is what has happened when the upright find themselves in a pit; the evil leader has hooked them into thinking solely about how they have been mistreated/defrauded, and lead them into misery.

So, what is the solution? This morning, I believe it is HOPE (the thing with feathers). 

Hope is thinking about good things in our future, which is the opposite of focusing on bad things in our past. I don't think we should blind ourselves to our current condition, and that's NOT what hope does; it just puts our current situation into context. It tells us we CAN change things. Hope promises us that if we do the next right thing, our circumstances will get better.

I think that's how the blameless inherit the good. 

Peace be on your household.

Comments

  1. Tommy CarthersMarch 28, 2024 at 8:07 AM

    So glad to be getting these again. We miss seeing you on Sundays.

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  2. Jesus SavesApril 1, 2024 at 7:46 PM

    Yes, Never lose Hope. God bless my Brother Pat!

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