August 17, 2026 Morning Devotional

Morning Devotion: Read Proverbs

Proverbs 28:4  They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

There is always a line of demarcation in the sand. On one side is the law of God, on the other side is lawlessness. Those who forsake the law of God have no other direction to go but to embrace lawlessness. To embrace lawlessness is to praise the wicked side of the line of demarcation.

Those who keep the law of God are always in contention with those who do not.

The reason the law is rejected and wickedness embraced is because those who try to keep the law of God find failure. No one can keep the law of God consequently the law of God is rejected outright. They come to the conclusion of “what’s the use, why try” and reject God’s law.

Galatians 3:10  For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

James 2:10  For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

You cannot keep the law of God; I cannot keep the law of God. Only one has ever kept the law of God, Jesus.

Since neither you nor I can keep the law, we come to the conclusion that we are impotent spiritually and in need of help. The law reveals we are without strength to keep it. It teaches us our weakness.

Galatians 3:24  Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Knowing we cannot keep whole law of God and are condemned in the eyes of God, we turn to Jesus who is the only one who kept the law and is the only one who can help us and save our souls.

Hebrews 10:7  Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

2Corinthians 5:21  For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Yes my friend, Jesus kept every word written in the word of God. Consequently, He is the only one who never had to pay for His own sin, because he never had any.

He then could go to Calvary’s cross and pay for your sin and my sin. He is the only one who can save your soul from hell and destruction.

With all that being said: the Christian, now saved, born again, sees the line of demarcation and refuses to step across it. They contend with it.

Ephesians 5:11  And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Would you trust in Jesus, would you be saved?

The choice is still yours,

Pastor Cook