~ Good Morning!

Let’s start the day off right — in God’s Word — and may the Lord’s daily Word empower us to have a Great Day, and a Great Week.

• Proverbs‬ ‭8:32-36 •‬

(32)“Pay attention, my children! Follow my advice, and you will be happy. (33)Listen carefully to my instructions, and you will be wise. (34)Come to my home each day and listen to me. You will find happiness. (35)By finding me, you find life, and the Lord will be pleased with you. (36)But if you don’t find me, you hurt only yourself, and if you hate me, you are in love with death.” ‭(CEV‬‬)

Proverbs 8:32 – Here is a strong encouragement, or a warning, to “Pay attention, my children! Follow my advice (or my wisdom) and you will be happy.” — Happiness, the blessed life, comes from serving Jesus and obeying Jesus.

Proverbs 8:33 – “Listen carefully to my instructions, and you will be wise.” — Hear, and learn, the wisdom from the Lord and become wise in your thoughts, your understanding, your ways and in your conversation.

Proverbs 8:34 – “Come to my home each day and listen to me. You will find happiness.” — Have a visitation, a conversation, with Jesus everyday. Read your Bible, meditate on what you just read. Pray for understanding of what you just read. Listen carefully to what the Word, and Jesus, is trying to communicate to you. Then talk with Jesus for a while and share your heart with Him. — A daily relationship with Jesus is where true happiness comes from. (See Proverbs 3:2.)

Proverbs 8:35 – “By finding me, you find life, and the Lord will be pleased with you.” — Real life, a happy life, a joyful life, fullness of life, is the reward for those who pursue godly wisdom.

Proverbs 8:36 – “But if you don’t find me, you hurt only yourself, and if you hate me, you are in love with death.” — In God’s Word, choosing to reject wisdom is portrayed as self-destructive. Proverbs 15:32 says, “You hurt only yourself by rejecting instruction, but it makes good sense to accept it.” (CEV‬‬)

REJECTING WISDOM can ultimately result in death. Proverbs 14:12 says, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.” (ESV‬)

ACCEPTING WISDOM can save you from death. Proverbs 14:26-27 says, “In the fear (respect, wisdom) of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge. The fear (respect , wisdom) of the Lord is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.” (ESV‬)‬

Godly Wisdom, knowing Jesus, and His Word, is the difference between Life and Death.

• Deuteronomy‬ ‭30:15-16, 19-20‬ •‭

(15)“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.”
(16)“If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. (19)I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, (20)loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” (ESV)‬

✝️ Choose Life!
✝️ Choose Jesus!
✝️ Read the Bible!
✝️ Get Wisdom!

Sincerely,

— Pastor Gene Allen,
Lead Pastor
FamilyChurchAG.com