December 5, 2025 Morning Devotional
Morning Devotion: Read Proverbs
Proverbs 2:9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. 10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
O the wonder when wisdom enters into a person heart and that person begins to understand righteousness and judgment and equity and every good path.
The good path, the right way that God has planned is understood through His wisdom. When that wisdom enters into your heart (at salvation) the things of God become pleasant to your soul. You begin to see things through the lens God’s wisdom.
That kind of wisdom will give you discretion. Discretion is the personal characteristic that enables you to judge correctly according to the will of God. You will begin to see what is right and what is wrong both with the world and yourself. Discretion is a preservative, it keeps you from evil.
I enjoy canning, I enjoy hearing the lids of each jar pop as they react to the cooling process after a water bath or pressure bath. However, every now and then one of the lids doesn’t seal as it should and eventually it looses its pressure and the contents are exposed. The contents of the jar start to spoil and eventually rot. Discretion is the seal of the believer it keeps them from the rotten, from the evil that would corrupt him.
Discretion keeps you from the evil man, the forward man and the strange woman, the stranger which would temp you with flatteries.
Proverbs 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
This man, the evil forward man, is akin the man in proverbs chapter 1 who would have you to band together with him to do subtle unscrupulous things all the while making them to appear good.
Proverbs 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; 17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. 18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. 19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Beware the flatterer. Flatteries come in all kinds of directions and shapes and sizes. They are meant to subtly temp you into doing wrong. We find this temptation happening all over our world.
Like the woman in our text, the world is caught up in sexual exploitations and flatters people into thinking it’s ok. People living together outside of the covenant of marriage, children being exploited and abused, marriages falling apart, and trafficking, all of this happens by lack of discretion, by lack of wisdom and understanding. Verse 18 and 19 explain the end very well.
James gives us the verdict of such things. James 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Wisdom and the understanding of righteousness will enable you to be discrete and give you protection and equity and safety; it will keep you on the right path. That is a good thing.
Proverbs 2:20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. 21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. 22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
My friend, wisdom enters into your heart when you realize sin is wrong and Jesus is the only way of salvation. Wisdom enters when Jesus enters into the heart. Do you have Jesus?
The choice is still yours,
Pastor Cook
