Devotional Guide
For the week of October 10, 2004



THE BIBLICAL WITNESS



What not knowing means




To Read: Proverbs 10-12





To Know:



"Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, 'Today, when you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing
in the wilderness, where your fathers put me to the test and saw my
works for forty years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, 'They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known
my ways.' As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest.'"
(Heb. 3:7-11)



Haddon Robinson first preached at Byfield Parish on a stormy winter
night. He began his message that snowy evening by telling us that in
his opinion it was easier to direct people to heaven than to give
directions to the Byfield Parish Church. How do we tell a person the
way to heaven? Robinson is certainly right when he says that the
Byfield Parish Church is hard to find. By taking one wrong turn a
stranger can wander around the parish for hours. We routinely begin
weddings five minutes late anticipating that some aunt or uncle is
out there somewhere, frantically trying to find us.



Not knowing the way to God is inexcusable. God, according to Paul, is
plain to see unless he is obscured by sin. "For the wrath of God is
revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men
who by their wickedness suppress the truth. For what can be known
about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them."(Rm.
1:18,19) The reason people get lost trying to find the Byfield Parish
Church is because they cannot find the way. The reason people are
lost and cannot find God is that sin has blinded their minds and God
is the last person they want to meet. According to the Bible, the
evidence that someone is a sinner is his or her not knowing God.





To Read:



Saturday: Proverbs 13-15

Sunday: Proverbs 16-18







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