Proverbs 12:5
The thoughts of the righteous are right:
but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
In these days of relativism, there seem to be a difficulty in defining the righteous from the wicked. Humanism attempts to denigrate Godly values of in our heart in order to glorify our own form of religion based on personal virtue and sense of morality. The ‘golden calf’ of our own attempts to define God according to our own senses and views seems to have succeeded where it had previously failed.
When Paul wrote to the believers in Corinth, he chided them for bringing their personal disputes to the city’s secular judges. He aimed at making them wonder how they could think that the Word of God ignorant judges of Corinth could rightly solve their issues. This practice was totally against the principles ingrained in the people of Israel who were taught to only bring their issues to be solved by people who were familiar with the Laws of God. Paul said that it would be better to let go of the issues and be defrauded rather than have the people of the congregation of God go to the ungodly for ‘justice’. I Corinthians 6.
Our author today puts things back in their place so we know now who to go to for advice. He tells us that only the righteous has right thoughts, while the thoughts of the wicked are deceit.
In our day of trouble, why should we go to the wicked? Why should we go to him who has forsaken God for advice? For where he is going we will also end. His counsel is not in God, but is birthed from his own hellish heart. As he think in his heart so is he, so why should we partake in the hellish lot of the liars?
In our day of trouble, this we must do: enroll people in our life who are righteous, whose heart is in God, for where they are going we will also end. We must engage people who fear God, people who know and obey His commandments and thus partake in the joyful lot of the righteous.
The thoughts of the righteous are right:
but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
In these days of relativism, there seem to be a difficulty in defining the righteous from the wicked. Humanism attempts to denigrate Godly values of in our heart in order to glorify our own form of religion based on personal virtue and sense of morality. The ‘golden calf’ of our own attempts to define God according to our own senses and views seems to have succeeded where it had previously failed.
When Paul wrote to the believers in Corinth, he chided them for bringing their personal disputes to the city’s secular judges. He aimed at making them wonder how they could think that the Word of God ignorant judges of Corinth could rightly solve their issues. This practice was totally against the principles ingrained in the people of Israel who were taught to only bring their issues to be solved by people who were familiar with the Laws of God. Paul said that it would be better to let go of the issues and be defrauded rather than have the people of the congregation of God go to the ungodly for ‘justice’. I Corinthians 6.
Our author today puts things back in their place so we know now who to go to for advice. He tells us that only the righteous has right thoughts, while the thoughts of the wicked are deceit.
In our day of trouble, why should we go to the wicked? Why should we go to him who has forsaken God for advice? For where he is going we will also end. His counsel is not in God, but is birthed from his own hellish heart. As he think in his heart so is he, so why should we partake in the hellish lot of the liars?
In our day of trouble, this we must do: enroll people in our life who are righteous, whose heart is in God, for where they are going we will also end. We must engage people who fear God, people who know and obey His commandments and thus partake in the joyful lot of the righteous.
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