Day 206, Year 1 Paying Attention to Falsehood Brings More Wickedness “If a ruler pays attention to falsehood, All his ministers become wicked.” (Proverbs 29:12 NASB) “A lying tongue hates those who are crushed by it, And a flattering mouth works ruin.” (Proverbs 26:28 NKJV) The word “wicked” in the first verse is rasha’, which […]
Day 205, Year 1 Ridding Evil so as to See Good “Who is the man who desires life And loves length of days that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.” (Psalm 34:12-13 NASB) The word “life” in today’s verse is chay, which is the same word
Day 204, Year 1 Resisting Evil Influence “<To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.> I said, ‘I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, While the wicked are before me.’” (Psalm 39:1 NKJV) If many people complain about God, it might
Day 203, Year 1 Dealing with Grievances Towards God “Now when the people complained, it displeased the LORD; for the LORD heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the LORD burned among them, and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp.” (Numbers 11:1 NKJV) In the Book of Numbers, if
Day 202, Year 1 Discerning the Filth in the Heart Jesus said, “But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.” (Matthew 15:18-19 NASB) Jesus pinpoints that evil thoughts, which come
Day 201, Year 1 Forbidding Ourselves from Speaking Evil Words “If you have been foolish in exalting yourself Or if you have plotted evil, put your hand on your mouth.” (Proverbs 30:32 NASB) If people have foolish or evil thoughts in their hearts and wish to avoid being further contaminated, they can follow the teaching
Day 200, Year 1 God Alone is Good “And Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.’” (Mark 10:18, NASB; same as Luke 18:19) As mentioned previously, we should distinguish our inner thoughts, desires, or emotions from ourselves and subsequently understand the related meanings. Understanding involves
Day 199, Year 1 Is Your Heart Treasuring Good or Evil? Jesus said, “The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart.” (Luke 6:45
Day 198, Year 1 Understanding the Things in Your Mind “A fool does not delight in understanding, But only in revealing his own mind.” (Proverbs 18:2 NASB) “Mind,” in Hebrew, is leb, which means “heart.” It also refers to the place where thoughts, motives, or emotions spring out. In my opinion, many people are fools
Day 197, Year 1 Are You More Inclined to Listen or Speak? “A fool does not delight in understanding, But only in revealing his own mind.” (Proverbs 18:2 NASB) “Understanding” in today’s verse, tebunah in Hebrew, previously mentioned in Proverbs 19:8, also means “insight, the act of understanding, the object of knowledge, reasons, discernment, reasonings,
