Proverbs 4:10-13 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
“10Listen, my son, and receive my words,
and the years of your life will be many.
11I will guide you in the way of wisdom;
I will lead you on straight paths.
12When you walk, your steps will not be impeded;
when you run, you will not stumble.
13Hold on to instruction; do not let go.
Guard it, for it is your life.”
Listen and Obey
Now, this counsel is not just for sons, but for sons and
daughters. And the Father that we must be listening to is God – Father, Son
Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit. This, nonetheless, is not necessarily a promise
of long life for all of us, as it was for him (the one who wrote this). But the
remainder of the instructions here match with God’s instructions in the New
Testament to us who are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ. So, take
them to heart!
If we are willing, and if we are submissive to our Lord in
humble surrender to His will and purpose for our lives, as those who by faith
in Jesus Christ have denied self, died to sin (repented), and who are now
following our Lord in walks of obedience to His commands, by His grace, He will
guide us in the ways of wisdom. He will counsel us in the ways that are right,
godly, morally pure, upright, faithful, honest, and obedient to our Lord’s
commandments.
When You Walk
Our walks are our life practices, our lifestyles, the things
we believe and act upon and say and do and think and feel. And this has
everything to do with our characters, who we are deep down inside us, in
reality, and not in fakery. Our walks are also motivated by what is stored up
in our hearts. For it is out of our hearts that come our thinking, attitudes, words
and behaviors. For our walks (lifestyles) have everything to do with who is
truly God over our lives.
So, if we are being guided by the wisdom and counsel of God
in our daily walks of faith in obedience to our Lord, and so we are now living
to please God, and no longer for the sinful pleasures of the flesh, then we are
blessed. If Jesus is truly master of our lives, and if our lives are committed
to doing His will for our lives, we are blessed. God will help us to resist the
devil and to walk worthy of our God and to do what is pleasing to our Lord, in
practice.
Proverbs 4:14-17 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
“14Do not set foot on the path of the wicked
or walk in the way of evildoers.
15Avoid it; do not travel on it.
Turn from it and pass on by.
16For they cannot sleep
unless they do evil;
they are deprived of slumber
until they make someone fall.
17For they eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.”
The Path of The Wicked
What is the path of the wicked? It is the path (way) of sin,
evil, immorality, lying, cheating, stealing, adultery, idolatry, corruptness,
depravity, dishonor, disrespect, self-indulgence, selfishness, murdering, and
rebellion against God and against God’s commands. And a path is a way of
living, a lifestyle, what is being practiced deliberately and habitually. For
many, their paths are living in addiction to sinful practices while not obeying
God, in practice.
And this is not saying that we will never sin or that if we
do sin that we are cut out of the family of God (see 1 John 2:1-2). This is not
saying that we must live in absolute sinless perfection or we are not of genuine
faith in Jesus Christ. But lack of perfection is never to be used as an excuse
for continuing in deliberate and habitual sin against God. For if sin is what
we practice, and not obedience to God, we will not have eternal life with God.
The False Gospel
Sadly, many of the wicked are pastors and elders of “churches,”
and/or they are missionaries and evangelists, and/or they are authors of “Christian”
literature. And they are heads of governments who profess faith in Jesus but
whose lives do not reflect what they claim to believe. But they are people of influence
who people cling to and believe whatever they tell them. But they are liars and
deceivers who teach lies to the people. We must test them.
For so many of them today are taking the Scriptures out of
context and they are twisting them to teach what they do not preach, if taught
in the correct biblical context. For they are teaching that a mere verbal
profession of faith in Jesus is enough to secure us salvation from sin and
eternal life with God guaranteed, regardless of how we live. Many are teaching
that God does not require that we die to sin (repent) and obey His commands,
but He Does!
The True Gospel
Jesus Christ taught that to come to Him we must deny self,
take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) Him. For if we
hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But
if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to
our Lord and to His commands, in His power, then we have eternal life with God.
For not everyone who calls Him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the
one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).
For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our
own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ
to walk in newness of life in Him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as
slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no
longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires.
For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is
what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with
God (see Romans 6:1-23).
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts
26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans
8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1
Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians
5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14;
Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24;
1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation
3:1-22]
So, know the truth, believe the truth, and live the truth
and not the lies.
God Leads Us on Straight Paths
An Original Work / August 4, 2026
Christ’s
Free Servant, Sue J Love
Believe Him
An Original Work / July 15, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
My heart cries:
Lord, won’t You hear me
Seeking You for the
answers
To my heartache and
questions
I have concerning my
life?
Speak, Lord, to me
right now.
“Oh, dear one, why
don’t you trust Me
With your life’s
circumstances?
Give your all on the
altar
In submission of
your will
To My purpose for
you.
“Surrender your life
completely
To your Lord and
your Savior.
He has all things
planned for you
For His glory and
honor.
He’ll work all
things for good.
“Believe Him. He
will fulfill all
Of His promises to
you
For your life and
your future.
Trust Him. Rest in
His love.
He’ll give you peace
from above.”
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