The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the blameless,
but destruction to evildoers.
Proverbs 10:29
For those who love God, repent from their sinful ways, and find forgiveness in Jesus, following Christ is a strong way to live. They find perspective over everything. They find faith beyond their capacity. God provides when things seem desperate and impossible otherwise. They face the future with hope, serve Him willingly in the present, and have all the wrongs of their past forgiven and freed. The way of the Lord is their stronghold… a place of safety, support, and strategic living.
Yet the God Whose ways provided that stronghold for those who trust Him will simultaneously frustrate those who reject Him. This is the truth being contrasted in this little proverb: The same God is both stronghold to the blameless AND the destruction of the wicked. And that truth is timeless… still applicable to our times today.
The wicked are undone by their insistence in rejecting “the way of the LORD”. They try to make their own way. They don’t find forgiveness, but stew in the bitterness and strife of depravity, just finding more and more negativity and meaningless to their lives. They trust in what falters… temporary strength, worldly force, and the whims of the cultural clownish crowd. They may even briefly appear to prosper and convince themselves they are happy in their smug selfishness, but God will not be mocked. Their way ends ALWAYS in ruin. Evildoers will experience the crumbling of their sand castles. God’s stronghold holds strong for eternity!
O Lord,
Keep my safe in Your stronghold. May Your wisdom guide me to be blameless in the saving work of Jesus, the knowledge of Your ways, and the light of Your Word as Your Holy Spirit leads me to obey Your ways.
Amen
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