Pro 22:17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
Pro 22:18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
Pro 22:19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.
Pro 22:20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Pro 22:21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?
I read this passage the other day and it just jumped out at me. I love this…
'They shall withal be fitted in thy lips'
What shall be fitted to our lips? The words of the wise, knowledge of the Lord, the words of truth.
Why shall they be fitted in our lips? That we might answer the words of truth to them that send us. Who sends us? Any that call unto us. We have to be ready to answer don't we?
1Pe 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear
Answer words of truth. The words of truth are of God. The words of truth are of salvation and even before Christ they were still of salvation- all things pointed to salvation in our Lord- before, during, and after His coming. Life is our Savior. Life is the truth in our Savior.
To have the words of God fitted to our lips is amazing! They can be fitted to our lips if we KEEP them within us. If we trust in the Lord. If we have faith. If we believe. If we apply our hearts to the knowledge of God, the knowledge of salvation.
I'm still feeling the sadness of the recent announcement about Stephen Hawkings touting that God isn't in creation. Oh, I know there will always be people who don't believe in God and I've known that for a long time. I also know that for as many as Hawkings might seduce to his man-made theories he'll also make others believe even more in God. God allows what He allows for reasons He alone can understand at times. We often wonder how and why things are allowed especially bad things, and that's when our faith has to be strong. We have to believe that the reasons are just even when they make no sense to us. This is where a lot of people start to waver. This is where faith is required and faith wavers. This is where so called people of science and logic jump in and say not to believe. I've had it happen to me in the past. Someone I admired too much started to work their intellectual wiles on me to convince me that the Bible was just man's invention to give order to society and it's like a fairy tale that keeps attracting the weak minded, giving them a crutch to fall back onto rather than admit that none of it is true and life is what it is without any of the Bible. Of course their words were much more seductive and convincing and I was at a low point in my spiritual walk when I was listening to these things. Only by the grace of God have I been brought back to Him fully and not captured by those lies. Without God there is no sense in the world at all whatsoever. Existence without God is heartbreaking, meaningless, and hopeless. I will NOT live without hope in salvation, without hope in our Savior. Tell me whatever you want to tell me. Give me your theories, give me your logic, give me your facts even undisputed facts, prove away by science any and all things in the Bible, I don't care! Satan, who is smarter than the smartest human being will use his powers to influence mankind and make their intellect persuasive to the faithless, to those who waver, to the weak. People of intellect don’t like to be called weak and will swear up and down that they are very strong-minded without a single mental weakness, but they are the weakest minded ever when it comes to faith.
I want to have the words of God fitted to my lips! I want to be able to speak and make known the truth of God to any and all that might ask me the reason for my faith. I want God to use me for His will in all things. And I hope to give ALL glory to God, always!
Pro 22:17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
Pro 22:18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
Pro 22:19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.
Pro 22:20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Pro 22:21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?
For it is a pleasant thing IF thou keep them within thee- they shall withal be fitted in thy lips- that thy trust may be in the LORD.
By His grace now and forever! In His love, through HIS righteousness!
Amen.
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