February 12, 2025 – Keep Your Nose Clean

Keep Your Nose Clean

February 12, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Proverbs 12:24
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

 

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

   

    When I was a young boy, I would hear people say things like, “If you want to, you can grow up to be the President of the United States.” Others said, “If you work hard, and keep your nose clean, you can do, or be anything you want.” At the time, I did not understand what my nose had to do with it, but I had seen some powerful people wipe their noses on TV, so I guessed it was true.

 

    After I grew up a bit, I came to understand what they were saying was the same thing God’s Word had said all along. If you are diligent and work hard, you can succeed in life. If you are lazy, always looking for a handout, and think the world owes you something; you will always be under tribute or be owing to someone.

 

    Often, I have found that those people who live by the rule or idea of always looking for someone else to take care of them, will also eventually lose everything they thought they owned. The truth of the matter is, that we all must understand, that God owns everything. We are simply stewards of His good will toward us.

 

    Everything we do, the Bible says, we should do as unto the Lord. Therefore, if we work hard for the Lord, it is the Lord who supplies our every need.

  

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

 

    God will never ask us to do more than we can do. However, He always expects us to do ALL that we can do. What can you do for the Lord today? Thank Him for this opportunity to be something for Him.

 

What can you do for the Lord today?

 

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:  February 12, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(O.T.-1,   N.T. & PS.-2,   Prov. – Monthly)}
Exodus 30, 31 – Psalm 38
Proverbs 12 – Luke 4

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Exodus 39-40 Matthew 26:1-25