Weekly Scripture 5-17-2026

Answer:

This comes from Proverbs, but where?

__:__-__For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

*This is a pattern for all people who choose not to revere God and listen to His Word and instructions. It is literally spiritual suicide to turn away from God. If you don't believe that it is suicide to turn away from Christ then you just look at the world around you and the people that have turned away. Look at the paths they are on and in a lot of cases you are seeing people eat the fruit of their own way. Look at how cold, calloused, and darkened of heart a person gets when they turn away from God. They begin to embrace all types of sin and call it good, they are lovers of self and the love of many waxes cold. Sounds a lot like their spiritual and moral compasses are spinning like a top, because they would have none of God's counsel and despised His reproof or correction.

Weekly Scripture 5-10-2026

Answer: Malachi 2:17

This comes from Malachi

__:__Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

*This is increasingly the outlook of mankind in our day and time. People that are doing evil act as if they are doing good and they even have the audacity to be proud of it knowing they did it in the sight of the Lord, and they are happy with their evil. They seem to think that since no judgment has come upon them from God instantly, then what they are doing must be just fine with Him. Mankind will stop at no lengths to try to justify their actions against what God says is right and excuses abound for evil behavior on mankind's part. It seems to be the case that mankind always turns to a ritual or some form of religion to try to satisfy or justify himself before Almighty God because they are unwilling to repent and turn to Him. I think God was telling these people in this day that their religion and ritual was making Him tired...and that their ritual was actually of no value to Him because it was not true worship. When I look at our society today and see the likeness in the attitude of people today to these people, maybe that is the reason why church attendance has been declining in recent years. Maybe people have become tired of church because their hearts are not true and right toward Almighty God, and they were only going through a ritual. Do you think possibly that since those people made God tired with their religiosity that we make Him tired with ours?