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My son, if sinners entice you,
Don’t consent.
Proverbs 1:10 (NASB1995)
At this time’s scripture verse awakens reminiscences of my childhood in our mining village. I bear in mind my mum’s curiosity in who I had been enjoying with within the streets or the park every day; and the occasions she didn’t approve of sure folks. She knew them and their mother and father, our village was an in depth group – everybody knew everybody. I didn’t at all times agree or obey mum’s steering, however it usually got here again with unhealthy outcomes, and that i needed to admit mum was proper. Certainly, my mum was a Godly lady who knew her Lord, and the methods of a sinful world.
“The primary nice hazard which besets the easy and the younger is that of evil companionship.” Albert Barnes.
I bear in mind occasions when some folks would “entice” me into some behaviour that was not becoming for a younger Christian; they spoke flatteringly and/or in a difficult means. The phrase “entice” confirms this, meaaning to delude, deceive or flatter somebody. It may be likened to the phrase “pulling the wool over their eyes.” Matthew Henry stated that “sinners love firm in sin; the angels that fell have been tempters virtually as quickly as they have been sinners.”
Pricey Reader, avoiding evil firm is necessary; the truth that each Psalm 1 and Proverbs 1 warn towards such unhealthy firm is critical and worthy of meditation. Concentrate on these you meet every day, and their motives. Give up them to prayer and be guided by your Heavenly Father’s Spirit in the way you reply to any invites.
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