Daily Devotional Betty Miller shares her daily devotionals which are based on the book of Proverbs in
the Bible.
The Wisdom of God
Verses for the Day:
Proverbs
26:27 (KJV): Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a
stone, it will return upon him.
Proverbs
26:27 (AMP): Whoever digs a pit (for another man's feet) shall fall into it
himself, and he who rolls a stone (up a height to do mischief), it will return
upon him.
Thoughts for the Day:
This verse
from Proverbs tells us those who try to trap or
destroy others will find their own devices will trap and destroy them. This is
based on the spiritual law of sowing and reaping.
Galatians
6:7-8:
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he
also reap.
8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he
that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
The Bible teaches
that we reap the kind of seed that we sow in the ground. In the natural,
if we plant a tomato seed and water it, it will produce a tomato plant.
Whatever kind of seed we sow, it will always produce that kind of fruit. If we
plant a cucumber, we will not get a watermelon. Watermelon seeds produce
watermelons. Good seed sown produces good fruit, weed seeds will produce weeds
with thorns and thistles. This particular principle runs throughout the entire
Bible, starting in Genesis, the first book of the Bible. Everything will produce
fruit after its kind.
Genesis 1:11:
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the
fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the
earth: and it was so.
In the beginning, everything God created for man was
blessed and was good. However, when Adam and Eve sinned, the earth came under a
curse, and now the ground would also produce things that brought pain to
mankind.
Genesis
3:17-18:
17 And unto Adam he (God) said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the
voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee,
saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow
shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the
herb of the field.
Now man was responsible for dealing with the things
that were cursed, and planting the things that would bring blessing. This law is
still working in the earth today in the natural, as well as the spirit. We now
have been given a choice as to which law we will choose -- the law of life in
Christ, or the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:1-2:
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who
walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the
law of sin and death.
Spiritually, we are free from the law of sin and
death, when we accept Jesus as our Savior. The devil can no longer exact his
case against us, as Jesus stripped him of his power when He went to the cross.
The devil no longer has any authority against us; however, we must exercise our
faith in Christ and resist the devil, and then we are promised that he will flee
from us.
James 4:7-10:
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from
you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye
sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning,
and your joy to heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
We are told if we
humble ourselves, and repent from our sins, and purify our hearts before God,
that He will lift us up. How do we do this? If we cry out in prayer, with
tears of sorrow before the Lord, and we sow the Word of God in prayer before Him,
we will in time be able to rejoice, as we will have a harvest from our prayers.
Psalm 126:5-6:
5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come
again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
However, on the
negative side, if we try to trap others, or do mischief to them, according to
today's study verse, we will surely reap the evil thing we intended to do to
them. Many people have had a "stone" of "heaviness" or "anguish" roll over them,
or they are trapped in a "pit" of "depression," "despair" or other "misery"
because of sowing evil intentions towards others.
Prayer for the Day:
Dear Heavenly Father,
I praise You for the opportunity to sow good things in the kingdom. Lord,
deliver me from any fear that would keep me from turning loose of things I need
to sow into Your work. Grant me the grace to give freely of all You have
given me, knowing that I will reap in like kind. If I need finances, may I
obediently give support into Your works. If I need encouragement, may I
take the time to sow it into the lives of those around me. May I be known, as
You were known -- a person who went about doing good. Cleanse my thoughts, so
that I will not even sow a bad thought in my mind toward others. I ask this in
the name of Jesus. Amen.