Just 1 Word

I recently discovered a website to help me with my daily bible reading.

www.just1word.com

Just1Word.com is the hip and trendy, user friendly, creative little brother (no real relation) to BibleGateway.com's resourcefulness. The bible site is very interactive, which you don't often get from online bible reading, and which is why most people prefer to read the bible from a printed text. The trouble, i.e. laziness, we then run into is not taking the time to open the book in a quiet place and read.

In the same way many people spend idle time on Facebook and Twitter (and yes I am equally guilty) we can navigate to Just1Word.com and browse the scriptures. So next time you are just surfing the web, checking Facebook, playing Solitaire, or reading blogs (like this one), mosey on over to www.just1word.com.

Now that the unofficial commercial is out of the way, allow me to share with you a little about what I read recently.

Proverbs 2

"The Lord gives wisdom ... and guards the path of justice"

"you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path."

(wisdom will) "deliver you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech."

Our world is filled with men of perverted speech. These men have a false understanding of what it means to be masculine. They tell jokes that are inappropriate and use language that is offensive.

Sure there are some, those who are Christians, who might justify their words and deeds with a line like, "well, the gospel is offensive, the cross is offensive, Christianity is offensive" excusing themselves of ill-manners and behavior that leaves many in disgust.

The nugget that I find in Proverbs 2, is that with wisdom, we are delivered from the temptations of Satan and the sin of our flesh. With wisdom, we are out of excuses; for the Lord reveals His righteousness, justice, and the good path.

Someone once likened the way we obtain wisdom to the way we learn to drive = in the same way that we learn how to drive a car in order to respond properly to any situation that might occur on the road.

Dear Lord,

I pray that I might live in such a way that in times of oncoming traffic, fog, black ice, and DWI's I will respond rightly.

Thank you for promising wisdom to those who ask.

In your name,

Amen