Bible Reading: Proverbs 8
Key
Verse: Verse 36 – “But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all
they that hate me love death.”
Key Words: all they that hate me [wisdom} love death
It was in the spring of
1979, on a lonely three-mile stretch of Florida beach tht one hundred pilot
whales hurled themselves onto dry ground in a apparent mass suicide. It was another rexample of self=destruction
behavior that continues to baffle marine biologists. These hugh creatures had beached themselves
in a kind of follow –the-leader fashion.
People came from miles around to try to turn them back. At one point a human fence was formed between
the whales and the shoreline. But even
when those sea mammals wre pushed, pulled, and forced back into deeper water,
many of them repeated their death surge and threw them selves onto dry ground
again. Several theories have been
advanced to explain this seeming bent toward self-destruction. One is that the whale’s directional sonar,
which steers it clear of danger, may have gotten fouled up. Biologists found parasites in the inner ears
of some of the huge creatures that may have disoriented them.
Do you suppose we humans
look like tht to the angels? As God’s
ministers for our good, they might wonder what strange urge causes us to self-destruct
en masse. It’s clear to them that the
Creator has provided a sea of wisdom for us to live in. Yet there’s something about man that mimics
these whales. Like an unreasoning
animal, he seems obsessed with a desire to break out of that element for which
he was created. Instead of remaining in
the expanse of a loving, conscious submission to God, he throws himself onto
the dry ground of disobedience.
We may think we’d never do
that. But believe what God says: All who
hate wisdom love death.
What to do:
✞Hear wisdom.
✞Love wisom.
✞Apply wisdom.
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