Devotion - July 18, 2014 Daily devotion from Proverbs 11:4. See series: Devotions DEVOTION - JULY 18, 2014 Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. Proverbs 11:4 If you’ve ever discovered a rabbit’s nest in the middle of your lawn, maybe you’ve wondered: why did that rabbit choose this spot? Even apart from an animal’s lack of reasoning power, you would think that her instincts would lead her to a safer place. Didn’t she consider how vulnerable she and her babies would be to predators? Didn’t she notice the humans living nearby? We all need a place to go where we feel secure and at peace. We need a nest. So we work hard, like a rabbit digging a hole. We make money. We buy the things that our hearts desire. And we burrow in, thinking that all will be well. But when we stop and look around, we find that we are not in the safe and peaceful place we thought we would be. Wealth comes and goes. So does the happiness that it brings. We all do it. We try to dig a permanent nest in a place where we will never find peace. This is worse than foolish. We are guilty of the sin of greed. This is serious because greed is idolatry. It is the worship of a false god called wealth. How easily we forget that a day is coming when we will meet our Maker! Left to ourselves, we would never know where to find security and peace. So God dug a nest for us, where nothing can ever harm us. Jesus was righteous for us. His righteousness counts for us. His righteousness covers our greed and every other sin. In Jesus, we are safe. In Jesus, we have peace. No enemy can take that away from us. Not even death can harm us now. All that digging….all that striving...all that chasing…what joy it is to know that Jesus has already given us all we need! Prayer: Dear Lord Jesus, your righteousness covers my sin. In you, I am safe and at peace. I am home. Thank you! Amen. “Summer with Solomon” is a special series of Daily Devotions on Thursday and Friday based on readings from the book of Proverbs. Todays Devotion is brought to you by WELS and WhatAboutJesus Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide.
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