Just Who Are You?

April 11, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Proverbs 11:22
As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

   

    I was walking down the street the other day when I saw a woman walking her dog. This was not so strange, except for the fact that the dog had on a sweater. Now, it may have just been me, but it seemed like the dog was moving fast and kept looking left to right, right to left, as if to say, “I sure hope none of my dog friends see me dressed this way.”

    Now I know, some of you dress your dogs this way, and I guess if it makes you happy to dress up your dog as children do their dolls, it never hurts anything. There actually might be some good to it if it is cold out or something. However, there is one thing we need to remember: under that sweet little cardigan, there is still a dog. You can paint their toenails a rainbow of colors, give them a cute haircut, which often costs more than your haircut did, and put ribbons in their hair. However, at the end of the day, they are still dogs.

    What is the point of all this? People are very much the same way. You can dress up the outside and clean up nicely. You might say all the right things and even go to all the right places. Nevertheless, if you have never accepted Jesus as your Saviour, under all that, you are still lost.
     

 

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

    

    Our verse today speaks of people with no discretion. It is about the inside and the outside of our lives matching. It is not only a verbal testimony of what has happened inside our life but a visible one as well. Do you look like the world and claim Jesus? How do they know you are saved then if they never get close enough for you to tell them? Do you look like the others at church and still not know Jesus as your Saviour? Cleanliness does not get you into heaven, my friend. It is time for the insides and outsides to match!

 

What is your non-verbal testimony for the Lord?

 

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage, and today’s Devotion?

 

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

 

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

 

  

GOD TALKING TO ME:  April 11, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(OT-1, NT & PS-2, Prov-Monthly)}
Joshua 1-3 – Psalm 87
Proverbs 11 – Philippines 1, 2

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Joshua 23-24 – Luke 10:1-24