About consequences and mistakes…
Proverbs 19:15 Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against a righteous man's house, do
not raid his dwelling place; 16 for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises
again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity. (NIV)
How close you are to God determines your resilience and your ability to stand against
evil. If evil has its way in your life you will crumble and fall. If God has His way in
your life, you will come back again and again to see victory. Living in the power of God's
rightness gives each of us His power to come back against every adversity. The evil person
is going down to sure defeat because the evil person lives in darkness and stupidity. Evil
people are stupid, because if they were smart, the evil person would see clearly that
wickedness brings devastation upon a person. Evil people eventually go to prison or die in
circumstances related to their wickedness. Each of us, daily, is faced with small
decisions about doing right or doing wrong. A Christian is a person vulnerable to the
wiles and temptations of Satan, and Satan tries to blind a person and essentially make a
person dumb to the consequences of their actions. One of the greatest deceptions used by
Satan is the deception that sin has no consequence. Satan succeeds in convincing people
they can sin without any consequence, payment, or result. The road of righteousness is
sometimes a hard road to walk, but at the end of the road stands Christ who welcomes you
into a gleaming city full of eternal joy, hope, and peace.
