Discretion will preserve you

Sometimes, in the presence of a hostile crowd, or even among casual friends who are non-believers,  we might not speak up so much about our Lord. We may feel guilty for not standing up for the Lord, because of our fear of being ridiculed. Then perhaps there is a verse which we can take comfort from, though this is by no means an exemption for us to suppress the gospel.

The verse "Discretion will preserve you", is all the more important when those around us make actually cause some harm after hearing about the gospel. In that case, their is a valid cause for discretion. Looking at the context of the passage, it appears that the situation is where one is surrounded by those who are evil and perverse in thinking and in deeds.


Proverbs 10
10 When wisdom enters your heart,
And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
11 Discretion will preserve you;
Understanding will keep you,
12 To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things,
13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;
14 Who rejoice in doing evil,
And delight in the perversity of the wicked;
15 Whose ways are crooked,
And who are devious in their paths;

You shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God

Deuteronomy 8:6-9
“Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; 9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

A wonderful reminder of a sermon today. The topic was that God's commandments are to be followed out of joy, because His commandments are essentially blessings because they will be leading to blessings. There are many things that God has revealed to us through the Bible and there is no excuse to say we don't know God's will. One of the things I remembered are:
- Control our tongue. Use it for blessings instead of cursing.
- Keep control of our fleshly, lustful nature, and let the Holy Spirit dominate over our natural man as God intended.
- The Golden Rule - Do unto others what we would have others do unto us.

Is Messiah, the Son of God, also is God Himself?

Psalm 2 - talks about the Messiah. The Psalm is mostly written by David, King of Israel and other contributors. However, there are verses, like the one below, that is written as if God Himself is talking and here it is talking about His Son Yshua.

7 “I will declare the decree:
The Lord has said to Me,
‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
8 Ask of Me, and I will give You
The nations for Your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
9 You shall break[a] them with a rod of iron;
You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’”

But why do we say His Son, Yshua, is also God. To call anyone else God, apart from the Almighty God is blasphemy - God made this clear in "Thou shalt worship no other gods". This also means we cannot worship anyone else except God. But then verses like the ones below shows God Himself declaring that the Son has all authority (lest He be angry) and deserving of our worship (Kiss the Son). God does not share His worship with anyone else, hence the conclusion is the Yshua, the Son, is also God.

11 Serve the Lord with fear,
And rejoice with trembling.
12  Kiss the Son,[b] lest [c] He be angry,
And you perish in the way,