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Wisdom for Debts and Diligence

Date: Feb. 9, 2017

Passage

Proverbs 6:1-11  (ESV)

  My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
    have given your pledge for a stranger,
  if you are snared in the words of your mouth,
    caught in the words of your mouth,
  then do this, my son, and save yourself,
    for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
    go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.
  Give your eyes no sleep
    and your eyelids no slumber;
  save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
    like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
  Go to the ant, O sluggard;
    consider her ways, and be wise.
  Without having any chief,
    officer, or ruler,
  she prepares her bread in summer
    and gathers her food in harvest.
  How long will you lie there, O sluggard?
    When will you arise from your sleep?
10   A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest,
11   and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
    and want like an armed man.

Daily Bread

Key Verse: 6:3b

  then do this, my son, and save yourself,
    for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
    go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.

1. Free yourself from debts (1-5)

To be a debtor is as serious as for a gazelle to be trapped by the hunter. Therefore, we should quickly free ourselves from debts by all means, such as working hard till we pay back all debts. Many of today's people are caught in credit card debt, school loans or mortgage payments. We must pay back all debts by all means as soon as possible. Debt is also compared to sins. People don't take sin seriously but sin leads us to eternal destruction. We should go quickly to Jesus to solve all our debts.

2. Consider the ant, you sluggard (6-11)

For the sluggard the wise teaches them to go to the ant and learn from its ways. The ant stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest, though it has no commander, no overseer or ruler. But a sluggard says, "I will do it tomorrow," then poverty will surely come like a thief. A good gospel worker is prepared in season and out of season to gather spiritual harvests.

Prayer: Lord, thank you for teaching me not to be in material debts as well as spiritual debts but to quickly pay them back. Let me be a diligent spiritual harvest worker.

One Word: Be free from debts and be diligent to harvest

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Revelation 22:10-21

Key Verse: 22:12

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