Poetic Justification
He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. Proverbs 7:20
Solomon spends the majority of this chapter discussing the fall of a foolish young man to an evil woman. In the verse above, she justifies why it is acceptable for him to spend the night with a married woman. While it appears to be obvious that such a justification is foolish, I am reminded of the famous lines of Robert Burns famous poem To a Mouse - "The best laid schemes of mice and men". Doesn't our plans often go astray?
We build great plans based upon our assumptions and justifications only to have them collapse like a house of cards. Is it simply due to random acts of nature? Or are we missing something during the planning process? Often when we plan, our conscious will twinge at some of our actions or intents. But we quickly justify them based upon the fact that "everyone else is doing it". Then we wonder why we fail.
Jesus explains the problem with our plans inLuke 6:47-49. When we come to Christ, hear his words and do them, we will succeed. If we choose not to follow his guidance, our plans are swept away. Is it not poetic justice that when we plan as men (or mice) we fail, but when we follow God's plan, we succeed? God has a plan for each of us from the cradle to the grave. If we will but listen, we will succeed!
Solomon spends the majority of this chapter discussing the fall of a foolish young man to an evil woman. In the verse above, she justifies why it is acceptable for him to spend the night with a married woman. While it appears to be obvious that such a justification is foolish, I am reminded of the famous lines of Robert Burns famous poem To a Mouse - "The best laid schemes of mice and men". Doesn't our plans often go astray?
We build great plans based upon our assumptions and justifications only to have them collapse like a house of cards. Is it simply due to random acts of nature? Or are we missing something during the planning process? Often when we plan, our conscious will twinge at some of our actions or intents. But we quickly justify them based upon the fact that "everyone else is doing it". Then we wonder why we fail.
Jesus explains the problem with our plans inLuke 6:47-49. When we come to Christ, hear his words and do them, we will succeed. If we choose not to follow his guidance, our plans are swept away. Is it not poetic justice that when we plan as men (or mice) we fail, but when we follow God's plan, we succeed? God has a plan for each of us from the cradle to the grave. If we will but listen, we will succeed!
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