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Arrogant Strife or Humble Prosperity . . . Your Choice - Proverbs 28:25

11/11/2012

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Proverbs 28:25  An arrogant man stirs up strife, but he who trusts in the Lord will prosper. 

A wise man knows that arrogance and pride are always evil. There are not many things we can say are wrong always - but this is one of them. God said in James that He resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Embrace pride and you will embrace resistance to God's will and ways.

What we learn here about the arrogant man is that he stirs up strife. This is because the arrogant man considers himself right and first at all times and in all things. His pride will not allow him to consider others before himself.  The ultimate example of this is Lucifer who, although the anointed one who covered - some say the highest angel in all of heaven - he decided he would be God. This arrogance stirred up the ultimate strife in all the universe. First it stirred up strife among the angels as a third of them followed him into his eternal insanity. They were subsequently cast out of heaven and are condemned for all eternity for following the pride of the devil.

On a much lower level, we too will find ourselves in strife when we are arrogant. An arrogant man will not humble himself. He will resist confessing sin - or even the thought of him doing something wrong. He will not serve others - but will demand that others serve him. He will not follow leadership - because he wants to lead - and then wants no one to question his leadership. His very demeanor will stir up strife among others who will react to his arrogant ways.

What is portrayed against this strife-causing arrogance is a man who trusts in the Lord. He looks to God and relies on God's work in people's hearts and minds. As a result he does not have to have his own way. He does not view others as a threat. He can serve them and place himself lower than all others because ultimately he knows that God is in sovereign over all things. The greatest example of this is found in our Lord Jesus Christ. Although he was God, He did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped - but humbled Himself and became a man. Christ's humility and trust in God led to very interesting places. He became a man - humbled himself to be a servant - and wound up on a cross being crucified for others. Yet, whereas Satan's pride and arrogance cost him everything - the humility and trust of Jesus in God won Him the name that is above every name. He was blessed for all eternity as the One Who saves. To say that Christ's humble trust caused Him to prosper is an understatement of monumental proportions!

But let's take a moment and leave the lofty courts of heaven itself and get in the trenches where you and I live every day. When we are arrogant and feel like we need to defend ourselves and get what our rights deserve . . . those actions will lead to strife. It is when we trust the Lord and lay down our rights that we will prosper. It is not when we take up the crown but when we embrace the servant's towel that we will prosper. Trust the Lord in every circumstance and become a servant to others. Allow the Lord to prosper you - and then use that prosperity to bring glory to God. This is the way to true happiness and to a blessed life. It may cost in the short term - but in the long term of a person's life it will lead to so much more - and to the ultimate blessings for all eternity!
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The "iPhone 5 Proverb - Proverbs 27:20

10/1/2012

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Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.   Proverbs 27:20

This is what I would call the iPhone 5 proverb.  Now, before you think that I've become a sellout to the Apple Corportation, let me explain myself.  This proverb has to do with the fact that since the fall of man there has been a condition called "sin" that radically affects man.  One of the conditions from which we suffer is the "lust of the eyes."  That is the specific thing this proverb addresses.

Let me start from the back side of this proverb first.  We read that the eyes of man are not satisfied - in fact we see that they are NEVER satisfied.  Now let me return to the iPhone 5.  This was released within weeks of this post - and I believe was greeted with over 2 million people who wanted it as soon as it was released.  The vast majority of these people had bought the iPhone 4S, which was an upgrade from the iPhone 4, which was an improvement over the iPhone 3.  I hope you can see what is happening here.  We are never satisfied with what our cell phones can do.  We want something else - and all it takes for us to stand in line for the next upgrade is for Apple to dangle a few "exciting" changes before our eyes.  When they do this, we are soon hooked - and just "have to have" this newest phone.  Want to know why?  It is because the eyes of our lusts are never satisfied.  There will always be another "new and improved" that will command our attention - command our lusts - which will command us to lay down another several hundred dollars so that we have the latest.  This is the case until the latest becomes outdated by the new latest, which is bound to come within a year of the last "latest" we had to have.  Thus I have explained, I hope to your satisfaction (or possibly conviction) the iPhone 5 proverb.  Next year, I'll have t rewrite this post to be the iPhone 6 proverb.  By the way, the post will be new and improved, and will contain words that you will just have to read in order to be truly satisfied and fulfilled. 

How strong is this desire of our eyes?  That is where the opening part of our proverb comes into play.  We read that Sheol and Abbadon are never satisfied.  To the extent that these two are now satisfied - that is the extent to which we won't be either - at least in what we want to see.  What are Sheol and Abaddon?  They are two Hebrew names for the place of the dead - and the place of ultimate punishment.  If we were to truly translate these two words they would be translated, "Death and Hell."  One would think that after thousands of years of consuming mankind and all of nature that Death would be satisfied.  (Note that these two - Sheol and Abaddon - are personalized.  They are not just a state of being - they are almost humanized so that we feel we are dealing with an actual entity.)  Death is not satisfied with the billions that he has.  He consumes daily those who join his ranks.  Wars, disease, violence, and old age swell the ranks of those in his grasp.  He consumes kings and paupers and everyone in between.  Yesterday he consumed thousands - and yet today his appetite for more is not satiated. 

Abaddon is also placed before us.    Many Hebrew scholars consider this to be the "second death" which is equivilent to hell.  Whereas death consumes mankind in general - hell consumes the wicked of mankind with the same voracious appetite.  No matter how evil man is in this generation - there will be more in the next.  And just as the previous generation was consumed by the judgment and by hell itself - it seems that the next does not heed the warning, rushing headlong into the same eternal destruction.  Does hell ever reach a point of being satisfied with his latest meal of the wicked and the ungodly?  Contrary to the thought, hell wants even more men and women - never being satisfied with the last batch of fools who ignore God's call to their eternal damnation. 

It is truly fascinating that God chooses to compare our unsanctified and uncontrolled eyes to both death and hell.  So many wind up with a liberal harvest of death and hell because they never learn to submit what their eyes see to the will and Word of God.  Lives are consumed, marriages destroyed, fortunes lost, and families disintegrated all because the eyes of men run wild. 

So what is our response to such a terrifying proverb?  It should be to come to God and to cry out for grace to redeem our eyes from their natural course and uncontrolled desires.  We need to call out to God for His work of salvation - that we would be saved from the sins of our eyes.  We need to also continuously call out to Him for His work of sanctification  - that He would purify our eyes and keep us from having them be a starting point for all kinds of wicked thoughts and actions.  Here is a promise of God for all of us.  Jesus says to come to Him - all of us who are weary and heavy laden and He will give us rest for our souls.  We do not have to be lead by our eyes into every sin - and every new iPhone - that comes our way, or is dangled before our eyes.  We can take His yoke upon us and learn of Him - of a life satisfied with the only thing that will bring fullness to our souls.  We were made for God - and anything but Him will never satisfy us.  When we do this - we will no longer be driven by the deathly and hell-bent desire of our eyes, which only want something new to see and to lust after.  We will learn, in participating in our Lord's life, that there is rest for our souls.  Who knows - if we learn to look at Jesus, realizing that true fullness of life is found in Him - we might even find ourselves manifesting enough self-control and satisfaction to resist the iPhone 6.


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The Wise, Upward Path - Proverbs 15:24

2/8/2012

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The path of life leads upward for the wise That he may keep away from Sheol below. Proverbs 15:24

The wise will have an upward bound life. That is what this passage tells us. It promises both an encouragement for the wise - that their path will lead upward. It also gives a warning - that the unwise path will end in Sheol, the place of the dead.

In His commentary on this verse Phillips makes the comment, "Darwin would have us believe that our feet are set surely on the upward way, that may is progressing by slow but sure degrees from protoplasm to paradise." This is the belief of those who account randomness and no purpose whatsoever for our existance and our origin. Unfortunately, both science and sociology tell us a much different story. They tell us a story consistent with the Biblical narrative.

Science reminds us through the second law of thermodynamics that we are in a constant state of decay. Things are not coming together into more order and more stability - they are moving from order to disorder. We look at the astounding complexity of life and see that it screams to us of an intelligent design infinitely higher than that of man. Science also tells us that something is wrong with this world. Things keep dying. It is as is this world has been cursed so that what originally was made - is now devolving into greater and greater chaos. Disease, sickness, pain, and suffering are the norm as we grow older individually - as well as our world grows older corporately.

Social Sciences also do not point in a direction that is good. The history of man is not a history of us getting wiser and wiser. It is not a history of mankind embracing new heights of goodness and mercy. On the contrary, the 20th and 21st centuries have witnessed a cruelty and evil that almost cannot be matched by previous generations. The endless wars and evils of our generation strike us in ways that at times takes the breath away. More people have been brutally murdered and systematically executed than ever before. We've found modern ways to exterminate our children, killing over 250 million of them since the inception of that horrific procedure. We call it population control - God calls it genocide of the innocents. The way of the fool leads to the place of death - that is what we know from experience. The way of the fool leads to pride and arrogance as he says there is no God.

The path of life goes upward for the wise man. He sees things as God sees them. He is blessed no matter what situations and privations await him in life. He knows that this life is not all that there is. In fact the Scriptures teach him that this life is just a fleeting breath. He is like a brief puff of wind that rustles the leaves and he is gone. Therefore he lives for God's will rather than his own lusts. Amazingly, this kind of choice fills him with joy - no matter what he faces in life. For him the worst he will ever face is in this life. He knows that things lead upward for him - until the day that he will embrace eternal life in all its fullness. He tastes it now, finding it sweet and delightful to his soul's palette. But how he yearns for the full meal. This grants him the joys of knowing life and of sterring clear from spiritual death and its ultimate companion, hell.

Things on this earth are not getting better and better. They were ruined by the entrance of sin brought on by man's rebellion and disobedience. Things are falling apart on this earth and will continue to do so until the day God brings an end to this fallen existance. Living for only here and now is therefore the utmost foolishness. The wise man knows this, because he knows God. The wise man therefore lives for eternal things. He lives because of His Creator's mercy in providing salvation through Jesus Christ. He also lives FOR His Creator and Lord - knowing that this is the pathway that leads upward - path this cursed ground - into the very presence of God in glory. Oh, precious ones - take this path!

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UNSHAKABLE! Proverbs 10:30

10/18/2011

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The righteous will never be shaken, But the wicked will not dwell in the land.  Proverbs 10:30

My brother was a missionary to the Philippines where he experienced his first earthquake, which came in unison with the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.  We grew up outside Chicago, so earthquakes were something we knew nothing about.  Wind we knew, snow we really knew - but earthquakes were foreign to us.  My brother's explanation was amazing to me.  When the earthquake hit, he thought the house was collapsing, and that was what was causing the shaking.  But when he ran outside, the ground there was shaking and rolling too.  For him and his family, this was a very disturbing thing.  They took for granted that the ground was firm.  Now it was shaking, and that was very disconcerting to them.  What they thought was stable, was being shaken.  This describes the hearts of many who are relying on things that can be shaken - as if they could not be shaken.  When the shaking starts, everything that they thought they could rely on became "shake-able."  But this is not the only thing shaken in these circumstances.  When it seems that everything can be shaken, your confidence in anything and everything is shaken as well.  Is there anything in this world that cannot be shaken?  That is what today's proverb is going to address. 

What we are told as wisdom is that the righteous will never be shaken.  Now, this promise does not speak of being exempt from earthquakes or other natural occurances where the earth around us is shaken.  What it does address is an even more wonderful promise - and that is an inner spiritual stability that cannot be shaken by anything - either earthly or unearthly. 

Note that the group who will not be shaken is the righteous.  These are those who stand before God and are viewed as righteous in His sight.  That cannot happen biblically except by faith.  There is no man who can ever stand before God as righteous on the basis of his own works.  Our works reveal us not as righteous, but as sinful and fallen.  If we are righteous, it is by faith in what God has done for us.  This He did through Jesus Christ at the cross.  But when we put our faith in Jesus Christ - God declares us righteous.  These are the ones who cannot be shaken.  This is something we need to grasp - spiritually. 

The Bible presents the physical world as shadows - with the reality being the spiritual.  Therefore, the ultimate shaking will be when we face our ultimate spiritual test - the judgment at the end of the age.  It is in this moment that many will learn that althought they thought they were unshakable in life - in death they will truly be shaken.  The word for shaken in Proverbs 10:30 is the word "mot" which means to be removed or to fall.  It was used often in the Old Testament to refer to the shaking and removing of things previously thought to be unshakable.  What shook them was the fierce judgments of Almighty God.  This shaking is promised for the wicked and the ungodly.  This is the term that is used when it is said that God will remove the mountains - and also of Him removing the entire earth.  Indeed there will be a shaking of eternal proportions that will come to the earth.  But after the earth is destroyed by fire, there is an even more terrifying event to come.  All mankind will stand before the judgment bar of God Himself.  This is the ultimate accounting - and the sole basis upon which our entire eternity will be based.  Oh what a shaking will come for all philosophies, all worldviews, and all religious beliefs.  They will be tested - and all but a faith in Jesus Christ will be found wanting. 

The righteous do not have to fear in that day - for the righteousness given to them by God on the basis of faith will stand.  It will not be shaken for it rests on the person of Jesus Christ as well as His death, burial, and resurrection.  It was the blood of Jesus that paid the debt of sin and paved the way for God to make us righteous by faith.  But for every other religious or non-religious view - this will be a day of horror.  It will be a day to be terrified as they learn that their self-made, man-made, or demonically-inspired religious and philosophical views will not remain.  We are promised that the wicked will not dwell in the land.  They will not stand, nor will they know an eternity in God's presence.  They will be judged and eventually cast into the lake of fire.  This will be their ignoble end - for they held an ignoble faith.  Their beliefs did not honor God or give Him thanks.  Their view saw god as something or someone they could manage by their own thoughts and philosophical positions.  Thus the land God is preparing for us will not be where they will dwell.  They will dwell in the outer darkness where there will be weeping and knashing of teeth.  They will dwell in a place where the smoke of their torment will go up forever and ever.

Let me the thoughts for today with a quote from the book of Hebrews.  There we read of this day of shaking with the following description.  "See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.  And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, 'YET ONCE MORE I WILL SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO THE HEAVEN.'  This expression, "Yet once more," denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.  Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire."  (Hebrews 12:25-29)  There is a shaking coming and it will shake anything and everything which can be shaken.  Heaven and earth will be shaken on that day.  But there will be a kingdom on this day that cannot be shaken.  The context of this shaking is the judgment of God.  God warns of this day from heaven.  He also works that anything created will be shaken, and even more than shaken, they will be destroyed.  Therefore we are urged to prepare for a shaking that will also involve standing before God, Who in that day, will be a consuming fire.  Are you ready for that day?  Do you have something, beyond things in this life and this world, that will not be shaken when they all are shaken?  Are you ready to stand before God as a consuming fire - and have what it will take to make it through the shaking and through the fire?  There is only one thing that will stand in that day - it is what God has given to us through His Son, Jesus Christ.  On that day only a righteousness gained by faith in Jesus will stand.  May both you and me prepare for THAT DAY, so that when it comes - we will not be shaken.
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The Self-Directed Way - Which Leads to Death . . . and Hell - Proverbs 14:12

1/14/2011

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There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. 
​Proverbs 14:12

Why is it that we cannot just trust our natural instincts concerning God and issues of morality and truth?  If this proverb is true (and it is), then we face a very real danger when we trust what we think is right in our lives.  When we live a self-directed life and a life that is self-oriented - we are going to have very serious problems.  Why is this the case? 

First of all, we need to see that for a time in this life - this proverb may seem like it is wrong.  There are those who do what they think is right - and it seems to go well for them.  I would agree with this assessment for the here and now - for life on this earth.  But that is not what this proverb is saying to us.  It is saying that the end of a self-directed life is death.  The word end here is our old friend, "acharith," the Hebrew word meaning the latter end of things. 

Things seemed to be going marvelous for the rich farmer who did not use his riches for the glory of God.  Things seemed to be going well for the rich man who lavished abundance on himself, but did not even notice the starving Lazarus at his gate.  Things seemed to be going well for Belshazzar the king as he feasted with his nobles and friends and drank wine out of the temple goblets and toasted the gods of silver and gold.  Things seemed to be going well for many people who lived a life of luxury and self-indulgence here on earth.  The problem is going to come at the latter end of their lives.

The rich farmer, after building bigger barns and saying he was set for life - experienced the end of his life - and had done nothing to prepare for eternity.  The rich man realized as James said, the humiliation of his exalted position on earth, as he envied the destitute Lazarus' one in the afterlife.  He begged for Lazarus to only dip the tip of his finger in water and touch the end of his tongue - for he was in agony in the fires of hell.  Belshazzar soon grasped the infinite foolishness of serving the false gods of silver and gold - when the true and living God sent a hand to write on his wall.  He learned that his self-directed life had been weighed in the balances - and he was found wanting.  One can only hope he enjoyed that banquet that evening - for by the next evening he was dead and in hell - forever wanting in the sight of God.

These three are examples for us of the stupidity of the self-directed life.  There are many others in Scripture and in life who follow their footsteps into hell.  There is Dathan and Abiram who opposed God and received a non-stop trip to hell via the ground opening up and swallowing them and their families whole.  There were the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah who undoubtedly held the same concept of God keeping His morality off of their bodies.  They wound up fried along with their cities as God's judgment revealed their latter end.  And, lest we think that this ignoble end is only for those guilty of heinous sin - there are those who die every day as good ole boys - as "good" "moral" people.  Their ultimate end was sealed when they decided that they were decent enough and did not need Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross to pay for their sins. 

When you listen to the news, the entertainment industry, the religious elite, and the gurus of public opinion - you would think that the cross of Christ is foolishness (Gee that sounds like Paul in 1 Corinthians doesn't it).  You would think that mankind does not need a religious crutch to lean on - mankind can solve their own problems without religion or some savior.  But reality is this - mankind does not need a crutch.  We would only need a crutch if we were injured.  The fact is that we are dead!  We need a whole new life.  We might need a religious system if we only needed modification.  The fact is that we are ruined.  We need to be completely regenerated and made new.  But the world for the most part rejects these truths revealed to us in Scripture.  They have a way that seems right to them - that makes more sense.  That is because "the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God."  It is because, "the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks (read thinkers here) search for wisdom; but we preach Christ curcified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God." 

There is that way that seems to right to men - but in the end "THAT WAY" is actually the foolish and the stupid one.  If they continue following it and reject the gospel . . . it will end in death - eternal death in hell.  I know that is not popular in today's culture - either religious or secular - but nevertheless - it is the truth.  If we are wise we will reject what the world calls wisdom - and embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ - for that is truly wisdom that will last through all the ages and until the end of time.

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When You Die Will Your Hope and Expectations Die With You? Proverbs 11:7

7/11/2010

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When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish, And the hope of strong men perishes. Proverbs 11:7

The true test of a man and his choices is how he dies.  More accurately it is what happens to him after he dies.  That is what this proverb addresses today.

When a wicked man dies - everything dies with him.  He has no expectations beyond this world.  During his life he lived for the things of this world - and now that he is dead - he has to face the fact that he lost everything at the moment he died.  You leave it ALL behind.  The wicked man's expectation was centered in this world.  He bet his entire life that this was all that there is - that there is no afterlife.  He figured that all he did will speak for him on that day. 

The fact is that the moment the wicked man dies - things will never get any better than the moment before his death.  Any good perishes the moment he perishes.  All that he can look forward to from that moment on is the wrath of God.  Jesus spoke to the rich man who was in torment in flame after death.  He reminded him that he received his good things in this life.  He rejected God - rejected serving God - and rejected living for God rather than for his own selfish agenda.  He bet that God did not exist - that heaven was just a state of mind - that judgment day was just a device used by Christian preaches to get people to walk down the aisle at church.  He was radically wrong!  God is real - and He is holy and just.  The strong man and the complete weakling are identical before the throne of God.  The strong man does not want to humble himself before the Lord.  But no matter what he does - his hope and his expectation perish before the Lord. 

There are times when we can learn from the wicked.  The first two funerals I ever did were for two people who were lost.  As I worked through the service - I felt completely helpless and unable to offer a lot of hope for those who had died.  This was because the hope and expectation of the wicked perish when they do.  When death made its play for them they lost everything.  The lesson I learned from them was to be prepared for the ultimate loss of all earthly things.  Death will rob a wicked man of everything he owns and everything he has hoped for in life.  I learned that I need to live for things that last beyond the grave.  I need to live for the spiritual reality that will continue throughout eternity.  I need to be prepared to die - and to have an expectation that goes beyond my trip to the funeral hope and graveyard.  Jesus promises life eternal - a reward that goes beyond the grave.  The wise man . . . places his hope and expectation in Jesus Christ.
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What did God know - and when did He know it? Proverbs 15:11

12/15/2009

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Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord, How much more the hearts of men! Proverbs 15:11

So, how much do you think God knows about you?  How much do you think He knows about every person there is and ever has been?  How we answer this question often will betray how we live as well.  For the person who thinks of God in very low ways, God does not have a knowledge of everything going on in our world.  This is especially true when it comes to themselves.  God doesn't know everything about me - every thought and every motive.  The result of such thinking is that such a person will sin more frequently and reason within themselves that God doesn't know what is going on in their lives.

There is a problem with this thinking though - it is inaccurate.  This proverb may seem strange to us at first - but it's purpose is very clear once we grasp what it is saying.  Remember the fear of the Lrod is the beginning of wisdom.  Thus we need to have adequate reasons to respect, honor, and fear Him.  One of those reasons is the fact that everything lies open before Him.  Nothing - including the thoughts and intents of our hearts is hidden from His sight.  This One Who is Judge - knows every conceivable fact about our lives that can be gathered. 

Sheol is the place of the dead.  That place lies open before the Lord.  He knows everyone there - and everything about them.  The place of the dead is not a mystery to God.  He konws every intimate detail about those there - and about everything they did before they arrived.  Even in death His knowledge is absolute.  What seems to be the idea here is that no matter who you are - God knows all there is to know about you - even when you are dead.  But what about those who reject Him - those who say either He does not exist, or if He does - that they offer Him no information about themselves?  Well, that is an interesting question - and one which this passage answers.

Abaddon lies open before the Lord.  What is Abaddon?  This is the place of the wicked dead.  It means "destruction" and is the Old Testament equivalent to hell.  This lies wide open to God.  He knows everyone there - and knows all there is to know about them.  Even those who reject Him - are known intimately by Him.  There is an interesting statement made by some - that God is not present in hell.  That is not Scriptural.  He is there - but only in absolute judgment and wrath.  Those in hell know God - but they only know Him in His wrath and judgment - and will only experience this for all eternity.  He knows all about their rebellion and arrogance - and every last bit of it is reaping eternal destruction and devastation. 

Now, if Sheol and Abaddon lie open before God - where do you think this places the hearts of men still living today?  Since God knows everything there is to know about everyone who has ever died - godly or ungodly - it is not a stretch to realize that every man's heart lies open before Him.  What a comfort this is to those who seek Him - yet what a terror to those who think they can reject and shut him out of their lives.  Yet that is the very purpose of this passage - this proverb.  It is given to bring men to the terrifying realization that the One Who stands as their Judge - is One Who has absolute knowledge about them down the tiniest detail of their lives.  To rebel against Him is the height of insanity.  All their hearts are open before Him - and they will have to answer for every deed and word - every action and attitude - every mood and mood - every sin  - all this will be at His instant disposal.  This is meant to humble us - possibly even horrify us if we are living definantly toward Him.  May He do His work through it to bring men to the end of themselves and to a point of repentance and faith in His only answer, Jesus Christ.
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