Proverbs 14:14
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways:
And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
There is old gypsy blessing that says, “May God give you want you want’. King David, then Father of our author wrote that we are gods. Of course, he didn’t mean that we are ‘God’, but he meant that our ability to live by choice instead of by instinct like animals is a godlike faculty. Yet freedom of choice, as wonderful as it is, has its drawbacks. One of them is that it imputes us with the responsibility of our decisions, good and bad.
This proverb leaves us on a sad fatalistic note. One who has a backslider’s heart, like the proverbial prodigal son, will be filled of the perverse things which he enjoys. He will be recompensed with the things which he desires. I personally cannot think of a greatest curse. I saw a short movie recently about a gangster who died in a shoot out with police. After he died he was taken to a place where his every whim received compensation: Women that responded to his every want; food and wine to his fill; casinos where he won every game. He could even fake a bank robbery where he of course, would succeed. In the end he got bored to death with the predictability of it all and desperately wanted to leave, but couldn’t. Our gangster then asked his ‘guardian angel’ guide what in the world gave him a place in heaven instead of the ‘other place’. The guide then answered him, ‘this is the ‘other place’.
On the other hand, a good man, a man whose heart desires the things of God more than things of the world, will also receive compensation from the desires of his heart. But since his heart loves the Father, He will receive the heavenly compensation that only the father can give.
Let us be mindful of what we ask for; we might just get it!
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways:
And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
There is old gypsy blessing that says, “May God give you want you want’. King David, then Father of our author wrote that we are gods. Of course, he didn’t mean that we are ‘God’, but he meant that our ability to live by choice instead of by instinct like animals is a godlike faculty. Yet freedom of choice, as wonderful as it is, has its drawbacks. One of them is that it imputes us with the responsibility of our decisions, good and bad.
This proverb leaves us on a sad fatalistic note. One who has a backslider’s heart, like the proverbial prodigal son, will be filled of the perverse things which he enjoys. He will be recompensed with the things which he desires. I personally cannot think of a greatest curse. I saw a short movie recently about a gangster who died in a shoot out with police. After he died he was taken to a place where his every whim received compensation: Women that responded to his every want; food and wine to his fill; casinos where he won every game. He could even fake a bank robbery where he of course, would succeed. In the end he got bored to death with the predictability of it all and desperately wanted to leave, but couldn’t. Our gangster then asked his ‘guardian angel’ guide what in the world gave him a place in heaven instead of the ‘other place’. The guide then answered him, ‘this is the ‘other place’.
On the other hand, a good man, a man whose heart desires the things of God more than things of the world, will also receive compensation from the desires of his heart. But since his heart loves the Father, He will receive the heavenly compensation that only the father can give.
Let us be mindful of what we ask for; we might just get it!
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