September 21—Consistency
The word for today is consistency.
“Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you. Make level paths for your feet and take only ways that are firm. Do not swerve to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil” (Prov. 4:25-27).
“For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them” (Prov. 1:32).
“I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun” (Eccles. 2:10-11).
“Be happy, young man, while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment” (Eccles. 11:9).
“But I am afraid, lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ” (2 Cor. 11:3).
“And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit” (Eph. 5:18).
“But thanks be to God, who always leads us in His triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place” (2 Cor. 2:14).
“And He was saying to them all, ‘If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me’” (Luke 9:23 emphasis mine).
Prayer: Lord, I am totally committed to persevere with passion upon the path You have laid out for me.
See also: Prov. 5:11-14, 7:21-23, 10:23, 20:1, 23:19-21, 29-35;
1 Kings 11:1-2, 4
