Get Out of Debt

Hello Everyone: 

Our proverb today warns against being a co-signer on loans, being lazy and it reveals the seven things the Lord hates.

Here is our text:

Proverbs 5: 1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge for another, 2 if you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth, 3 then do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go and humble yourself; press your plea with your neighbor! 4 Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids. 5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. 6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! 7 It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, 8 yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. 9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest– 11 and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man. 12 A scoundrel and villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth, 13 who winks with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers, 14 who plots evil with deceit in his heart– he always stirs up dissension. 15 Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed–without remedy. 16 There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, 19 a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.

The proverbs opens by saying that if you have been a co-signer for a neighbor/friend, or if you have pledged yourself to some financial debts that have trapped you then do whatever is necessary to free yourself from it.    First, if your neighbor will let you out of it then humble yourself and go to your neighbor first and plea with your neighbor for freedom to negotiate some type of deal to get you out of it.   If you cannot get free then work hard to pay off the debt and don’t ever trap yourself in financial bondage again. 

Then the proverbs teaches us to work like an ant, how it has no boss, or overseer but yet they are constantly building and working carrying loads on their bodies bigger than their actual bodies.   Storing up for winter months and working or gathering the harvest when it is time.   The proverb warns against laziness and teaches that a lazy person will end up in poverty. 

The proverb ends by telling us the six things that the Lord hates and the seventh is an abomination.

1.    Haughty eyes

2.   Lying tongue

3.   Hands that shed innocent blood

4.   A heart that creates wicked schemes

5.   People that are quick to do evil.

6.   A false witness that speaks lies

7.   This is the one that is an abomination to God.  A person that stirs up dissension or division.

Whooooo………….  A lot to think about.  Time to do a self check….

Stay encouraged everyone and don’t forget to pray and read God’s word daily.

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