Copyright 2016 J. Neely
Proverbs 1:27
27 When your fear [pachad] cometh
[bow'] as
desolation [show'] [sha'avah], and your destruction ['eyd] cometh ['athah] as a whirlwind [cuwphah]; when distress [tsarah] and anguish [tsowq] cometh [bow'] upon you. KJV-Interlinear
27 when terror strikes you like a storm and
your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
ESV
Not learning Bible
doctrine by means of instruction, leaves you in a state of spiritual ignorance.
Bible doctrine cannot be self-taught, as so many wrongfully believe. This
leaves you vulnerable to the many difficulties of life.
Bible doctrine is
the foundation ingredient that the soul needs, in order to deal with life. You
have to learn it in order to have it in your soul.
When disaster
strikes, you primarily use the resources within your soul, to deal with the disasters
and difficulties of life.
Without Bible
doctrine, you lack the spiritual resources, which are the real and true
resources, that are needed in order to handle any and all aspects of life.
God sits back on His
throne in heaven, having given each and every one of us His written word, and
watches to see whether we are going to learn and use that word.
Without Bible
doctrine in the soul, you lack the spiritual stability, you lack the spiritual
muscle, you lack the spiritual faith that is needed when dealing with
everything in life. And when trouble strikes, then you flounder, and this verse
addresses that floundering.
When trouble
strikes, you have to deal with fear, you have to deal with that which causes
the fear, and then you have to deal with the trouble itself.
Without Bible
doctrine in the soul, because it has not been learned, then you lack the
spiritual resources that combat fear. Without spiritual resources then fear can
quickly overtake your life.
Without spiritual
resources, then anything and everything in life, small or great, can impose fear
into your life. And when you have fear, then you have no stability. And without
stability then the simplest of difficulties in life can overwhelm you. And the
great difficulties of life can destroy you.
With Bible
doctrine in your soul, then you have control over fear, and therefore control
over how you deal with the difficulties of life. And this can make a huge
difference in the quality of your life.
God does not bend
down and fix your problems for you. More often than not you have to work your
way through problems, and that requires a fear free thought process. Bible
doctrine provides the clarity of thought that helps you get through life.
Study [by instruction],
to show thyself
approved [spiritually mature]
unto God,
a workman [student]
that need not be
ashamed [ignorant],
rightly dividing [learning, understanding, discerning]
the word of truth [Bible doctrine].
These
studies are a part of the massive daily study web site at DailyBibeStudy.Org,
and are written, so that you can come to Christ if you have not done so
already, and therefore not be lost forever.
And
if you have already believed in Christ, then these studies are written so you
can learn and understand and grow in your spiritual life, so that you can come
to the full knowledge of Christ, so that you can fulfill your meaning and
purpose in life as God intended for you, and so you can qualify for a
phenomenal eternal reward which you will have forever. To ignore this opportunity to pursue a daily
study means you will be incomplete, unfulfilled and you will lose out, big
time.
The
Daily Bible Study is online, making it possible as never before in all of human
history, to advance in ones relationship with God, through Christ, and to
complete yourself beyond your imagination.
But
you have to decide to make that commitment.
No one else can study for you.
You have to do that yourself.
