April 25, 2026 Morning Devotional
Morning Devotion: Read Proverbs
Proverb 21:17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
In our modern world of entertainment the entertainer has been set on a pedestal and glorified. It is the entertainment world that has dumbed down the moral principles of this society by predetermined script. “Everything goes” is the philosophy of entertainment. The moral standards are gone and those who love it shall be poor. (Not those who produce it, those who love it.)
I was out doing errands yesterday; I took a good look at people on the streets in the stores and restaurants and even in cars. They were all glued to their phones. Heads were bowed (almost in worship) and eyes were fixed on the phone, the main source of entertainment today. It’s portable, convenient and accessible to anything one wants to see and hear. That one device is the access by which the entertainer influences others. The word “loveth” is nothing more than addiction. (Go ahead, try to put your phone down for a day.)
Jeremiah said his eye affected his heart. What He saw affected him. Lamentations 3:51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
What you see will affect your heart. King David realized this hinderance in life.
Psalm 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. 4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
The wine and the oil, in our text, is the indicator of the party lifestyle.
Peter warns of the party lifestyle that the lost world loves and that which the believer has escaped in Christ Jesus.
1Peter 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: 4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: 5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
God tells us not to love the world nor the things in the world.
1John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Set your affection on Him not the pleasure, and the wine, and the oil.
Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
If you want true and good and righteous influence in your life, read the bible.
The choice is till yours,
Pastor Cook
