Proverbs 14:12 – “There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

Today is the day the LORD has made, and I believe it is filled with victorious discoveries if we are sensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit.    God wants to lead us into fullness, but we tend to trust our own wisdom and desires more than the quiet guidance of the Holy Spirit.

During my multiple decades on the planet and my decades of serving God, I have learned that when He speaks to you through the Bible, you listen.   When God gives a Rhema, a prophetic voice, and you sense the nudging of the Holy Spirit, it is vital to Hear that warning or urge.   I have received many through the years!

I wish I could say I always obeyed and heeded them quickly and fully.  I wish I could.   However, I have found that choices have consequences, and actions of obedience or disobedience have their own unique awards.  One is reward and a step into more fullness; the other is discipline and a step backward Until we obey.

Most likely, we have had times when we were disobedient to what we knew was right, but the pull of the flesh overpowered our hearts, and we walked in disobedience.   I hope I am the only one, but I suspect others have been guilty.

Today, the LORD revealed something personal to me, and I desire to walk in complete obedience to that directive.   Will it be easy?  Is solving a quantum physics problem easy if you do not know quantum physics?  However, I have also learned that if we set our hearts to following God completely, He will help us.    The key is being willing and then being obedient to Him.  The flesh says no, but the Spirit says yes!

I pray for each one today that we will all have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to us individually and have willing hearts to obey that directive.   

The declaration of Proverbs 14:12 resonates powerfully with the heart that desires to be obedient.  “There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

As I read today in the George Lamsa Translation of Aramaic to English, Proverbs 15:3 leaped off the page, “Commit your works to the LORD, and He will establish your thoughts.”   That is a compelling thought.  If we commit our lives, works, actions, deeds, and pursuits to God, He will guide our thoughts and establish us in right thinking!  Right thinking leads to right believing, and right belief leads to right behavior.  I want that!  I cry, “More, Lord!  More Lord!”

May your days be filled with peace as you hear and heed the directives of the LORD!