6 Jan 2016; Proverbs 2

6 Jan 2016; Proverbs 2

My son, vif you receive my words

and treasure up my commandments with you,

2  making your ear attentive to wisdom

and inclining your heart to understanding;

What then will happen when God's wisdom is not taken likely?

Prov 1:

Because I have called and fyou refused to listen,

have gstretched out my hand and no one has heeded,

25  because you have hignored all my counsel

and iwould have none of my reproof,

26  I also jwill laugh at your calamity;

I will mock when kterror strikes you,

27  when terror strikes you like la storm

and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,

when distress and anguish come upon you.

28  mThen they will call upon me, but I will not answer;

they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

What then is a life after God's?
In contrast what is a life style not after God:
Prov 2: 12-19

delivering you from the way of evil,

from men of perverted speech,

13  who forsake the paths of uprightness

to jwalk in the ways of darkness,

14  who krejoice in doing evil

and ldelight in the perverseness of evil,

15  men whose mpaths are crooked,

nand who are odevious in their ways.

16  So pyou will be delivered from the forbidden1 woman,

from qthe adulteress2 with rher smooth words,

17  who forsakes sthe companion of her youth

and forgets tthe covenant of her God;

18  ufor her house sinks down to death,

and her paths to the departed;3

19  none who go to her come back,

nor do they regain the paths of life.

Go after God in the following degree:
Desperation
Devotion
Discerning

Desperation:
Prov 2:

yes, if you call out for insight

and raise your voice wfor understanding,

4  if you seek it like xsilver

and search for it as for yhidden treasures,

5  then zyou will understand the fear of the Lord

and find the knowledge of God.

Call and cry out to Him in desperation. Am I too complacent? When was the last time I cried out?
Is there no need and I can do without God? Or once a while when the problem is too big?

What capture the heart will either consecrate or corrupt the heart. Is there no need then to run after Him in desperation?

Devotion:
Is is about the desire to spend time with Him, in His words, in prayers. When was the last time that I spend solid time with Him in reading His words, in prayers. Is one hour too long?

Discernment:
Prov 2:

 So you will walk in the way of the good

and keep to the paths of the righteous.

21  For the upright vwill inhabit the land,

and those with integrity will remain in it,

22  but the wicked will be wcut off from the land,

and the treacherous will be xrooted out of it.

The wisdom of God, gives us the discernment.
Just do the right things of God.

BTW,
I ran 4km and did 120 back press today.