6 Jul 2012; Jude, Prov 4,5

Proverbs 5 is on warning against adultery.
 Drink water from your own cistern,
  flowing water from your own well.
(Proverbs 5:15 ESV)

But don't get me wrong, especially those who read this blog and is close to me. I have not committed any adultery.

As I read Jude, a similar warning was called on the Christian.
 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
(Jude 1:5-7 ESV)

The verses are a reminder and a guard against
1. unbelieve
2. rebellion
3. sexual immorality

The world has no God. But as for me and my household, we will choose to serve God. I enjoyed the time with the young ones - taking opportunity to teach them that even if we don't see the things happening around us, our prayers are heard and we just have to believe God will do. When I ask Deb and Matty to pray for God to hold the rain and give us cloudy (no sun - not hot), with wind. Deb doubt. But when she saw that God did hold the rain and the sun, I took the opportunity to reinforce. I followed up the reading of the story of Joshua and the Israelites acrossing the Jordan river during her devotion. Likewise, the water did not stop immediately when the priest who carried te ark take step into the Jordan. But the water did stop - BELIEVE.

The world choose their own way of doing things. Rach was sharing about David and his giving to the Lord. It came as a reflection from the previous day time alone with God from Prov 3:9-10. The world horde wealth and store up treasures on earth. The world will do things in way to horde power as well. Evil is the word Proverbs use for those godless people who has no regard for God. I have come to a realization that building treasures on earth - where moth and rust will destroy. We are called. Likewise the angles in Jude are called to stay in position. Therefore I pray that my heart will pursue and in wild for the things of God, not the wealth or the status or the power.

The fall of man - one main cause - woman. The king David also fail to succumb.

As such, Jude and Proverbs 5 serve to remind me of the right way to live. Know and believe in my God - fear Him. Know my calling and serve Him - stay out of rebellion but in active obedience. Know you stand - be faithful to your wife - Prov 5:15 - lead your family.