Proverbs 10:29
The way of the Lord is strength to the upright:
But destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
NOTE: ‘Iniquity’: law-lessness
And what is the way of the Lord but to walk in His laws?
Those who think they know better than God; those who seek to live solely by their own rules; those who refuse to subject themselves to the company of God; they say that faith in God is for the weak. Maybe they are right.
God has taken the weak things of the world to confound the mighty. Weakness in our own eyes wins us the strength of God. What would happen if a man joined the armed forces, but refused to subject himself to military rules and training? This man would be a danger to himself and to his comrades. So it is with the upright. If we join this army of the Lord on earth, our strength lies in our abiding in His laws and statutes. Only by doing so can we expect to inherit the promises of provision and protection granted to us in our salvation.
The worker of iniquity, or the ‘law-less’ by definition of the word, denies to himself the strength of God and therefore is the one who is truly weak. He is weak because he has no standard but himself by which to judge the right and wrong of his actions. He is weak because he refuses the character strength training that comes by exercising the muscles of faith when we obey God’s laws. He is weak because he does not have the ‘way of the Lord’ to protect him; he therefore becomes prey to every one of his own evil inclinations.
May we take the to heart this admonition of the Lord:
Deuteronomy 6:6-12 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full; Then beware lest thou forget the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
The way of the Lord is strength to the upright:
But destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
NOTE: ‘Iniquity’: law-lessness
And what is the way of the Lord but to walk in His laws?
Those who think they know better than God; those who seek to live solely by their own rules; those who refuse to subject themselves to the company of God; they say that faith in God is for the weak. Maybe they are right.
God has taken the weak things of the world to confound the mighty. Weakness in our own eyes wins us the strength of God. What would happen if a man joined the armed forces, but refused to subject himself to military rules and training? This man would be a danger to himself and to his comrades. So it is with the upright. If we join this army of the Lord on earth, our strength lies in our abiding in His laws and statutes. Only by doing so can we expect to inherit the promises of provision and protection granted to us in our salvation.
The worker of iniquity, or the ‘law-less’ by definition of the word, denies to himself the strength of God and therefore is the one who is truly weak. He is weak because he has no standard but himself by which to judge the right and wrong of his actions. He is weak because he refuses the character strength training that comes by exercising the muscles of faith when we obey God’s laws. He is weak because he does not have the ‘way of the Lord’ to protect him; he therefore becomes prey to every one of his own evil inclinations.
May we take the to heart this admonition of the Lord:
Deuteronomy 6:6-12 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full; Then beware lest thou forget the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
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