Joshua 13:1-14:15, Luke 18:1-17, Psalms 85:1-13, Proverbs 13:7-8
Today is the 16th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is great to be here with you today as we continue the journey, step-by-step, day by day, moment by moment forward through life and through the Scriptures together. And this week we’ve been reading through the book of Joshua and the conquest, the settled…well…well…the conquest of the promised land and we’re…we’re about to kinda move into the time of settling of the promised land. We’re reading from the New English Translation this week. Joshua chapters 13 and 14.
Commentary:
Okay. What’s being said in the book of Proverbs today is actually pretty important and pretty profound. So, let’s go back through it real quick. “There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing”, right? So, they’re poor pretending to be rich. “Another pretends to be poor and yet possess is great wealth.” So, this person is pretending to be poor when they are actually rich. “The ransom of a person’s life this is wealth. Thus, the poor person has never heard of threat”, right? So, if you’re…if you’re gonna be kidnapped for ransom as is being indicated here in the Proverbs, that’s the scenario. If you’re gonna be captured or taken, it will be for ransom and if you’re poor you can’t pay. So, it’s unlikely that you’re going to be held for ransom, you don’t have it. But the rich person, they…they would be able to pay the ransom, right? So, there’s basically four scenarios here and only one of them work. So, there could be a poor person who’s not pretending who just is poor and acknowledges that they’re poor. There could be a rich person who’s not pretending anything, they just are wealthy and let it be known. Then there are the scenarios of pretending - being poor while pretending to be rich and being rich while pretending to be poor. The only person in this equation that’s going to have trouble is the one pretending to be rich that has nothing because they could be held for ransom because they’ve been posturing and putting on a false front that they have money, but they don’t so they’re captured, and they have no way out. So, the moral of the story here is actually pretty straightforward and hits us between the eyes because we’re all guilty and we’re all guilty repeatedly. Don’t pretend to be more than you are. That is not only living completely false, it’s a dead end that’s gonna get us into a lot of trouble. Fluffing ourselves up, puffin ourself up, wherever it might be, whether it be in actual life in local community or whether that be posting stuff on the Internet that is false and is presenting something that is not true but rather is providing a very over embellished view of what’s going on sets us up for failure, actually sets us up for ransom that we can’t pay. And, so, let’s take that to heart. We don’t gotta present something that’s not true. We don’t have to present something that’s way bigger than the truth actually is. We’re given permission to be ourselves. And, I don’t know, we can’t get much bigger than a son or daughter of the most-high God. So, let’s rest in that today instead of all of the energy that it takes to keep us…keep up a false front.
Prayer:
Father, we invite You into that. We take heed to the voice of wisdom in our lives today and ask, Holy Spirit reveal to us the ways that we are falsely embellishing our lives. We want to be true and walk the pathway that leads to life. We can’t walk that true path if we’re false. So, come Holy Spirit and show us the areas in our lives that need some work. We pray this in the name of Jesus our Savior, the true one. Amen.
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Hello Daily Audio Bible community from beautiful Cincinnati OH this is your brother Daniel Johnson junior. I’m out here walking again. It’s a beautiful spring morning Monday April the 12th 2021 or as we like to say these times around 2021. It’s my birthday week. This coming Friday April the 16th is my birthday and I’m so fired up to be completing another trip around the sun. God has been so good over this past year. As we…hang on a second…let’s throw another log on the on the camp…on the Global Campfire and let’s pray. Father Lord Jesus Holy Spirit we come to You, holy victorious trinity today against shame. So many of Your people, so many people in this world are being oppressed by the enemy with shame. I mean…and we know, and we come to understand that there's…guilt is one thing when we have done wrong but this feeling of actually being wrong, being unworthy we come against that now in the name of Jesus Christ and we declare, and we break every agreement with shame right now. The shame…the shame of being too…too ashamed to let others into our burdens, that we’re too ashamed to let others in know, You know, about deep embarrassing issues, You know, the embarrassment that we have about these things. We just want to let it go God. Jesus, You came to set the captives free. And You…so set us free from all of the shame. We claim this now in Your name. Amen. From beautiful Cincinnati OH this is Daniel Johnson junior God love you. I love you. Let’s make it a great day.