Proverbs 1:22-32 TPT
22 “Foolish ones, how much longer will you cling to your deception? How much longer will you mock wisdom, you cynical scorners who fight the facts?
23 Come back to your senses and be restored to reality. Don’t even think about refusing my rebuke! Don’t you know that I’m ready to pour out my spirit of wisdom upon you and bring to you the revelation of my words that will make your heart wise?
24 I’ve called to you over and over; still you refuse to come to ME. I’ve pleaded with you again and again, yet you’ve turned a deaf ear to my voice.
25 Because you have laughed at my counsel and have insisted on continuing in your stubbornness,
26 I will laugh when your calamity comes and will turn away from you at the time of your disaster. Make a joke of my advice, will you? Then I’ll make a joke out of you!
27 When the storm clouds of terror gather over your head, when dread and distress consume you, and your catastrophe comes like a hurricane,
28 you will cry out to me, but I won’t answer. Then it will be too late to expect my help. When desperation drives you to search for me, I will be nowhere to be found.
29 Because you have turned up your nose at ME and closed your eyes to the facts and refused to worship me in awe —
30 because you scoffed at my wise counsel and laughed at my correction—
31 now you will eat the bitter fruit of your own ways. You’ve made your own bed; now lie in it! So how do you like that?
32 Like an idiot you’ve turned away from ME and chosen destruction instead. Your self-satisfied smugness will kill you.
33 But the one who always listens to ME will live undisturbed in a heavenly peace. Free from fear, confident and courageous, that one will rest unafraid and sheltered from the storms of life.”
There is a command to come back to your senses, so that means some of you are playing games and toying with your Maker!
Comment: Verse 2 says God is more than willing to pour down His wisdom and revelation on you. So then, if we lack wisdom and revelation, who is blocking it?
The problem is rejecting God’s counsel and correction.
Many Christians cry out for help because they are in disaster mode, but their prayers do not get answered, and people die or lose everything. Why? God is telling them why HE may not answer their desperate call for help. HE said HE had been calling, but they had not answered Him!
Church attendance does not define answering God. You need to come to full submission and surrender and out of your Western pagan mindset and be reborn!
Pastor Steve Kim