TLIC Family. PROVERBS. JANUARY 30: EVIL MEN.

THINK TOGETHER.

Can you think of anybody in the Bible who was evil?

READ TOGETHER

Proverbs 2:10-15. ¹⁰for wisdom will come into your heart…¹²delivering you from men of perverted speech, ¹³who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, ¹⁴who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, ¹⁵men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.

Yikes! These guys sound terrible don’t they? Solomon is describing people that are really, really bad. Not only do they do wicked things, but they like doing wicked things. They rejoice in doing evil, and delight in it. Everything they say and everything they do is meant to get them what they want, even if they have to lie and trick to get it.

I sure hope this doesn’t describe you. And I sure hope it doesn’t describe the people you are friends with. When you love wisdom (love God) you will be very careful about who you are friends with. You won’t let people who love being bad influence you to be bad like them, because you are wise enough to know that delighting in sin only leads to more trouble. But more importantly delighting in sin is not loving is it? Delighting in evil is never, ever God’s love and kindness in us.

When Jesus taught his disciples how to pray he prayed these words, “Our Father in Heaven…deliver us from evil.” Jesus’ prayer was wise. It came from the book of Proverbs. Jesus was like Solomon teaching his children to be smart and stay away from those who like to do bad things. Of course, the person who is the most wicked and delights in doing evil the most is Satan himself. But how are we delivered from Satan?  By trusting in Jesus alone to save us from our sin by his death on the cross for us. That’s the wisest thing you can ever do.

Because of Jesus we can be delivered from the most evil one – Satan.

With Jesus we will delight in doing good, not bad.

DO SOMETHING TOGETHER

Talk with your kids about their friends. Do any of their friends delight in doing bad things? Is it wise to be a close friend with someone who delights in being bad?

PRAY TOGETHER

Jesus, you have delivered me from evil by your cross. Help me to never delight in doing bad things, and to stay away from people who do. Amen.