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Pastor's Thought for the Day
Friday, May 18, 2012
A child who loves wisdom makes a parent glad,
but to keep company with prostitutes is to squander one’s substance.
Proverbs 29:3, NRSV
This verse is not primarily about sex, it is primarily about a wasteful lifestyle. It is the life style of the Prodigal Son in Jesus’ parable of Luke 15. It is about burning up your substance in an effort to fulfill the desires of the flesh. Funny thing though, when you try to fill your empty soul by living to fulfill desire, the more empty you feel! You cannot fill the round, God-shaped whole in your heart with the square, flesh- shaped peg of wasteful living. The undisciplined lifestyle will only produce more emptiness, and will lead to the utter destruction of life.
“Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteous, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matthew 6:33).