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Bible Daily Devotional from Proverbs
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Daily Devotional
               Betty Miller shares her daily devotionals which are based on the book of Proverbs in the Bible.   

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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.