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Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Devotional: April 8th

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Proverbs 6:1-19

To act as a surety is to commend someone by guaranteeing the commitments he has entered into. On the face of it, this springs from kindly feeling. But God hates this suretyship, firstly because it indicates confidence in man, and then because it unwisely commits an unknown future, which belongs to Him alone (Jeremiah 17:5; James 4:13-14).

Vv. 6-8 advise those who are lazy to visit an ants’ colony. How many profitable lessons we can learn from these industrious little creatures — diligence, perseverance, prudence, order, help for one another, self-discipline. Not one of them remains idle, and if the load is too heavy, a companion runs to his help. May we learn to observe the striking illustrations which God has given us here and there in His creation.

We have already seen that all the members of a believer should be kept and sanctified for the use of God (Proverbs 4:21-27; Proverbs 5:1-2). Vv. 12-19 show us how, in the natural man, these same members are used in the service of evil. Such was also our own condition when we were slaves to sin. But Romans 6:18-19 reminds us that we have been set free and exhorts us firmly to yield our members "servants to righteousness unto holiness."

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