BBD 04.05.16 The To-Do-List (New)
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Burning Bush Devotional
5 April 2016
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The To-Do-List
A worthless person, a
wicked man,
Walks with a perverse mouth;
He winks with his eyes,
He shuffles his feet,
He points with his fingers;
Perversity is in his heart,
HE DEVISES EVIL
CONTINUALLY,
He sows discord.
Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly;
Suddenly he shall be broken without remedy.
These six things the Lord hates,
Yes, seven are an abomination
to Him:
A proud look,
A lying tongue,
Hands that shed innocent blood,
A HEART THAT DEVISES WICKED PLANS,
Feet that are swift in
running to evil,
A false witness who speaks
lies,
And one who sows discord among brethren. – Proverbs 6:12-19 NKJV.
The To-Do-List is a basic
personal and business management tool for helping to manage your life. We’ve
probably all used it at some point in time. Kristina Green and Gary Withers,
who live in San Diego, are two people who also use the To-Do-List. On a Tuesday
afternoon, they were busy taking care of one of the items on their list as they
followed a mail delivery truck. The driver noticed a Dodge Charger following
him, and also that after he delivered a package someone from the Charger would
run up to the house and grab the package and the mail. The delivery truck
driver called 9-1-1 and Sheriff’s deputies arrested the couple who were on
probation for theft.
Inside of the Dodge Charger deputies found heroin,
meth, stolen mail, a loaded firearm along with a To-Do-List. The To-Do-List
included: apply for welfare, shoplift, steal
mail, and kiss Mom. (7SanDiego 12.15.15; Times of San
Diego 12.15.15 and various other news venues) Can you imagine being at a point
in your life where your To-Do-List includes shoplifting and stealing mail? At
least they were not planning to murder someone.
When you leave God out
of your life the result is that your To-Do-List begins to fill up with not so
good things, things which God hates. This will not end well as the writer of
Proverbs points out: “Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; suddenly
he shall be broken without remedy.” Will the arrest of Gary and Kristina stop their downward
spiral? It is unlikely, although possible if they turn to God. The sad thing
about Gary and Kristina is that if they have children, the children will be
trained to do the same evil things, and look upon them as being good things.
Even their grandchildren will also make evil plans, and do evil things. Sad to
even think about, but I have seen the truth of this too many times.
What is on your To-Do-List? Maybe you ought to take a
look at it and make sure there isn’t an evil plan or two on there. Here are
some things that you may want to include if they are not on your To-Do-List
already: “Therefore, putting away lying, ‘Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,’ for we are members of one another.
‘Be angry, and do not sin’: do not let the sun go down on
your wrath, nor give place to the
devil. Let him who stole steal no
longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him
who has need. Let no corrupt word proceed
out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may
impart grace to the hearers. And do not grieve the Holy
Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath,
anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you
(Ephesians 4:25-32 NKJV).”
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