Lizzie here: The Blog posted here is by my husband, Eric. To his daughters in law and grandkids he is PapaJ). I was reading my email and came across this wisdom I had not yet seen:
The Lighted Path...by Permission:
Proverbs eleven shows that righteous people shall live through troublesome times, but the wicked will perish in them. Righteousness and wickedness start from within. It starts from how each of us deals with the sin nature that dwells within us. Yet for the righteous, what is rightly dealt with within will preserve him when the trouble comes, when the outward, uncontrollable, hurtful situation occurs. They must choose the right path.
Character and righteousness do not just happen, they are built up step by step
on a daily basis. It is not an "unchangeable" part of our character -
something like our body type that has been given to us at birth. If we haven't
been working on it when we need it will not be there.
The righteous would have been doing good acts, gaining a reputation for it
perhaps. Maybe the good acts condition them toward salvation. Right internal
corrections result in the right outward responses during the time of trouble.
It might be the righteous have developed righteous friends when the wicked have
not (at least not the good type of friends).
By contrast what is internal to the wicked will have no worth for delivery to
others, except to others who are like them. They have chosen to develop
inwardly the opposite way. Proverbs 4:16, 17 says: "For they [the wicked]
cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they
have made someone stumble For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the
wine of violence".
Proverbs 4: speaks a lot of following the right path. The admonition is to keep
on the right path. By contrast, the wrong path of the wicked leads to a
downfall. To be doing wrong is to not be doing right. Everything that is not on
the righteous path leads into the area of wickedness. When you do mischief, you
are knowingly working against some God-established ways. And if it were not
good enough to be there themselves, the wicked attempt to trip others on the
path of righteousness.
Righteousness follows the path of light, whereas there is darkness everywhere
on the path of the wicked. It is very important to keep on the lighted path.
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Posted By PapaJ to PapaJ's Blog at Aug 19, 2023, 4:52 PM
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