ODB: Ponder Your Path

Eat, Our Daily Bread | August 22, 2011 12:03 am

August 22, 2011 


  You are headed in the right direction when you walk with God.   

READ: Proverbs 4:14-27 

Keep your heart with all diligence . . . . Ponder the path of your feet. —Proverbs 4:23,26 

A 47-year-old Austrian man gave away his entire $4.7 million fortune after concluding that his wealth and lavish spending were keeping him from real life and happiness. Karl Rabeder told the Daily Telegraph (London), “I had the feeling I was working as a slave for things I did not wish for or need. It was the biggest shock in my life when I realized how horrible, soulless, and without feeling the ‘five-star’ lifestyle is.” His money now funds charities he set up to help people in Latin America.

Proverbs 4 urges us to consider carefully our own road in life. The passage contrasts the free, unhindered path of the just with the dark, confused way of the wicked (v.19). “Let your heart retain my words; keep my commands, and live” (v.4). “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life” (v.23). “Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established” (v.26). Each verse encourages us to evaluate where we are in life.

No one wants to go through life on a selfish, heartless road. But it can happen unless we consider where we are going in life and ask the Lord for His direction. May He give us grace today to embrace His Word and follow Him with all our hearts.

— David C. McCasland

Source: Our Daily Bread

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1 Comment

  1. simon joshua says:

    “Better to eat a dry crust of bread with peace of mind than to have a banquet in a house full of trouble”.Proverbs 17:1

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