Turn from the ways of this world

S - Proverbs 14:12 (NASB)

 There is a way which seems right to a person,

But its end is the way of death.

O - Matthew Henry: "We have here an account of the way and end of a great many self-deluded souls.

• 1. Their way is seemingly fair: It seems right to themselves; they please themselves with a fancy that they are as they should be, that their opinions and practices are good, and such as will bear them out. The way of ignorance and carelessness, the way of worldliness and earthly-mindedness, the way of sensuality and flesh-pleasing, seem right to those that walk in them, much more the way of hypocrisy in religion, external performances, partial reformations, and blind zeal; this they imagine will bring them to heaven; they flatter themselves in their own eyes that all will be well at last.
• 2. Their end is really fearful, and the more so for their mistake: It is the ways of death, eternal death; their iniquity will certainly be their ruin, and they will perish with a lie in their right hand. Self-deceivers will prove in the end self-destroyers. "  

A - The way of the world for many of us is what we grew up with.   Seeking celebrity, success, and wealth in the world.   We worship ourselves when circumstances find us favoring what we have earned by the works of our hands and thoughts of our mind.  In the end though, things we desire and pursue in this world end in death. For those who are shackled to earthly things shall be buried in the dirt and those who vask in the light of the world, Jesus, and repent , turning away from their sin and turning toward God will be saved and not just saved, but freed from their bondage.  

P - Dear heavenly Father, thank you for today's lesson, may it be sealed to my heart.  I pray this in Jesus' name, Amen.