Proverbs 28

Perfect love casts out fear. Our God has made sure promises to us that have been secured through the death of His Son. The resurrection of Jesus teaches us what those promises are all about and provides evidence for us of the life that awaits us beyond this dying world. Even now, the Lord is in perfect control of all the events in our lives. Because of our God, the righteous can be as bold as lions. We live in the sure promises of the King.

This does not mean that everything that we experience in our lives will be morally good or pleasant. Wickedness, poverty, and oppression are still with us. Yet as we seek the Lord we can understand justice, beauty, truth, goodness, and order. We can pursue these with the confidence that the Lord will care for us even beyond this life.

May the Lord continue to grant to us listening ears. We need a life that is filled with the Word of God where the Almighty King of Creation and Providence hears us when we call out to Him.

This good life of communion with the Lord requires the humility of confession and repentance. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We can experience the joy of the mercy of God every day.

The righteous man will be as bold as a lion if He has learned how to live a humble life before the Lord. The true fear of the Lord is full of blessing. The life of stubborn rejection of the Lord's ways makes no sense for us. May God deliver us from evil that only invites further calamity into our lives.

If we see the generous provision that God has given us through the work of Jesus Christ, we not only find in Him all that we need for salvation; we also discover true joy for living; the joy of trusting and giving. Greed will only poison our minds, and it will never seem like we have enough. Trusting in the Lord will lead to an eternity of glorious bounty.