This morning I rather be talking about praise with it being Sunday, but I am in Proverbs and it is a hard book to get through and even read on a continual bases. It like entering the sea of correction only to find the fire pit lapping at one's toes instead of feeling drowned in the sea of total forgetfulness. We must be reminded that are sins once forgiven go into the sea of forgetfulness, but often sin laps at our feet, waiting and watching for us to fall even if only for a moment into sin. I can almost picture David telling his son Solomon, the time King Saul tried to kill him at the dinner table, how he was eating the dainties of meat and food at the table only to find himself on the run from King Saul. King Saul became enemy and then a friend, but not a friend to necessarily trust. A truce came between them, when David had the ability to kill King Saul and showed him mercy.

12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

We all know child abuse is a reality and a bad beating will kill a child. However this is not talking about beating the child to the point of death it talking about not sparing the rod of correction. Not forsaking correction of children, but to correct one's child, it will not hurt them, but it part of instruction of what right and wrong. Teaching them about the the cost of mistakes and correction of mistakes. How many errors does a boss allow before correcting someone. How many errors go without correction before dismissal, depends on the boss. Some see the hope in a worker and will correct him/her if they willing to learn to do the job right. Children have to learn to follow instructions and how not refrain from following the ways of evil.

15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

The correction from childhood into adulthood. If we mediate to long on this proverb we think we enter the top country drinking drunk songfest. Yet many rock, country and even songs of yesterday tell the story of the drunken man in the bar, and the night out on the town looking for women. Yet is that not what Proverbs is truly talking about. Watch two and half men and you have two men, both in sin, one the nice guy and the other a devil after any woman he can score with. One man thinking he knows how to treat woman and the other abusive but the women care not. Yet both men are animals of the night in their own right. Most would agree the mother is no more then a harlot herself not a mother that taught her sons about treatment of woman, or with any Bible instruction. How many shows out there similiar theme, but most only watch and not copy into their life style.

Most shows on television though fictional in reality, some people do live in a world of sin never considering that a one night stand might lead to potential death, disease, or destruction. Who do we trust? Who do we admire in the world we live in. Who do we think plays a good fiddle only to find the lyrics evil. Yet our focus should be on clean living, Little House On The Praire life style, with God and church in our world today.

We called to praise God and yet Proverbs talks more about sin then maybe any other book in scripture except the laws. Perhaps the reason being is Solomon own life style of concumbines and 700 wives where causeing Solomon a struggle of the need for the one night stand, to sometimes leading to marriage, because he value the woman he slept with.

God did not call us to follow sin, but the instruction of Father and Mother, the instruction of God the Father and Wisdom/ Holy Spirit. God did not call us to sin of our youth but called us to live a life pleasing to him. Those that are my age or even older no that life style of holiness becomes a tad easier but not completely easier. Our desire and needs change over the years and even our weakness are not as weak because God teaching and molding, or is our need decreasing. Those that young will say what is she talking about this morning, she talking about some sin does not last in the same way. Some sin does not remain in the same way. There things that change not because of our insight to change, but because situation change things. So the lust of the flesh might be in the mind and not so much in the desires of the heart. What does this mean, the purging of the soul must continue even in old age, even when circumstance change. We choose what we follow and what we digest on the tv, radio, even with those we congregate with and so forth. The deep receases of the heart and mind must be purged of dead sin, and sin desired. Solomon admits following after sin.

Dear Heavenly Father purge us from sin, the sin that hides within the deep receases of the soul, mind and heart. That sin that has no place in heaven, or in the life of us as believers. Purges and cleanse us, knowing you are the one that I desire to follow. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Mark 7:18-23 KJV
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.