Title: The Pathway to Health and Life
Text:
Proverbs 4:20-23 (HCSB)
20 My son, pay attention to my words; listen closely to my sayings.
21 Don't lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.
22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to one's whole body.
23 Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.
Observation:
A choice verse in our focal passage for today is verse twenty. When I think of first things, my one word goal this year is FIRST, this verse will be one that I will refer to often.
There is great reward in paying attention to the Word of God. Solomon encourages us to pay attention to words, listen closely to sayings, don't lose sight of them, and to keep them within our heart.
Solomon's father, David, the writer of the Psalms said this:
Psalm 119:11 (HCSB)
11 I have treasured Your word in my heart so that I may not sin against You.
Psalm 119:105 (HCSB)
105 Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path.
There is great reward in keeping the word of God within our heart. Don't ever forget that it is the source of life.
Proverbs 6:23 (HCSB)
23 For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective discipline is the way to life.
However, hearing is not enough, we must obey the Word of God.
James 1:22-25 (HCSB)
22 But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
23 Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror.
24 For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but one who does ⌊good⌋ works—this person will be blessed in what he does.
Prayer:
Father, I pray that Your people will realize the surpassing value of spending time each day in the Word of God.
Father, I pray that in this New Year we will each dedicate ourselves to feasting on the Word of God.
Father, I pray that we might all agree with the Psalmist when he said in
"Psalm 119:11 (HCSB)
11 I have treasured Your word in my heart so that I may not sin against You. "
In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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