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Daily Devotion: Proverbs 24:19-22

Proverbs 24:19-22    "Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;  (20)  For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.  (21)  My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:  (22)  For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?"

We never want to admit that we "worry" about things, do we?  If we call it worry, then we would be admitting our faith is not what it should be. We aren't worrying if we do not speak it out loud, right? But how often do we fret about things?  What? What is that, you ask. Well, in my understanding, fretting is that time when something is eating inside of you and you just can't shake it off.  God tells us not to let those things grab us on the inside. Then He tells us not to be envious at the wicked. That word means that we are not to allow them to move us to the place where we act in a manner that is opposite of who we really are in Christ.  I admit that it is a struggle for me to not rant and rave about the things going on in the world today. It is quite a struggle and sometimes that fretting and being negatively zealous oozes out of me. I try to be like the little boy who stuck his finger in the dam to keep it from leaking out, but sometimes it does.

Why are we not to allow those things to rule us? For me, it is because I only look at the present moment. God knows, and declares, the end from the beginning and He says "there shall be no reward to the evil man." He tells us not to "meddle with them that are given to change."  So, what are we to do, if we are not to meddle with them? If I understand it correctly, we are to maintain our stance in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are to walk by faith, trusting the promises of God.  "For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?"

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