In His Service

  The Enactment of Hatred Proverbs 6:12-19 I believe we have all met someone or seen someone who could be classified as wicked, evil, or villainous. I think of the comic book villains or those of the movie screens, but in real life there are very evil people, those controlled and possessed by Satanic influence. Solomon most probably had met a few in his childhood or adulthood. As an example from scripture, there is one character in the Old Testament that may have had all these malevolent qualities mentioned in this proverb, Doeg the Edomite. So let’s read the first portion of the text. “What are worthless and wicked people like? They are constant liars, signaling their deceit with a wink of the eye, a nudge of the foot, or the wiggle of fingers. Their perverted hearts plot evil, and they constantly stir up trouble. But they will be destroyed suddenly, broken in an instant beyond all hope of healing.” (NLT) Solomon now switches from slothfulness to the personality of enemy numbe...

  La Promulgación Del Odio Proverbios 6:12-19 Creo que todos hemos conocido o visto a alguien que podría clasificarse como malvado, perverso o villano. Pienso en los villanos de los cómics o del cine, pero en la vida real hay personas muy malvadas, controladas y poseídas por la influencia satánica. Salomón probablemente conoció a algunos en su infancia o adultez. Como ejemplo de las Escrituras, hay un personaje del Antiguo Testamento que pudo haber tenido todas estas cualidades malévolas mencionadas en este proverbio: Doeg el edomita. Leamos la primera parte del texto. ¿Cómo son las personas indignas y malvadas? Son mentirosos constantes, mostrando su engaño con un guiño, un codazo o un gesto de la mano. Sus corazones pervertidos traman el mal y constantemente provocan problemas. Pero serán destruidos repentinamente, quebrados en un instante sin esperanza de sanación. (NTV) Salomón pasa ahora de la pereza a la personalidad del enemigo número uno. Ofrece una letanía de rasgos ma...

  Wake Up Slacker! Prov. 6:6-11 The Hebrew word for sluggard is “Atsel”, it refers to someone habitually inactive and unwilling to work. The world has seen its share of the slothful procrastinators, who avoid work and will make excuses to postpone doing the work needed to be done. Solomon uses one of the humblest and tiniest of God’s creatures to show the need for diligence and responsibility, as well as the motivation and preparedness for the future. So let's read the first portion of the text. “Go to the ant, you sluggard;  consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.” Solomon again exhorts the children, possibly watching an anthill as the worker ants carry out the tasks of gathering food for the colony. There is a small hierarchy to the ant colony: the queen who generates eggs and the males are born for one purpose, to generate sperm and die after mating with the queen....