Alfame
December 15, 2022
“Aflame”
Blessings folk!
Throughout the Proverbs we see the comparison between the wise/fool, wicked/righteous.
More…
Pro 29:8
Scoffers set a city aflame,
but the wise turn away wrath.
ESV
Pro 29:8
Mockers can get a whole town agitated,
but the wise will calm anger.
NLT
The scoffing mocker will set things afire.
They stir.
They agitate.
Many they be in our lives.
Politically.
Religiously.
Family?
Be not a scoffer.
Agitate not.
Be wise.
Turn away wrath.
This does not mean that Believers will not stir things up.
When we speak Truth the enemy will react.
Case in point…
Act 17:6-7
And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting,
“These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar,
saying that there is another king, Jesus.”
ESV
We are those that “turn the world upside down”.
We are empowered by the Spirit to do so.
Not for the sake of disruption.
For transformation.
Not for personal glory and power.
For the praise and glory of the Most High God.
We will be falsely accused, as was Jason et. al.
We will be lied about.
Our words will be twisted and used against us.
Still, may we press on and turn the world upside down…