When we read verses like these in Proverbs 5:1-2, it is VERY clear what has happened to our nation!
1 MY SON, be attentive to my Wisdom [godly Wisdom learned by actual and costly experience], and incline your ear to my understanding [of what is becoming and prudent for you], 2 That you may exercise proper discrimination and discretion and your lips may guard and keep knowledge and the wise answer [to temptation].
No longer are many of our nations young people taught the Word of God, the ONLY source of true Wisdom! Remember Proverbs 1:17 from a few days ago?
7 The reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord is the beginning and the principal and choice part of knowledge [its starting point and its essence]; but fools despise skillful and godly Wisdom, instruction, and discipline.
Many of the people you may come in contact with have never even opened a Bible! When the concerted effort of the enemy for the last 50 years has been the systematic destruction of the family and the removal of any mention of God in the public arena, is it any wonder things have gotten to the point we see today? What IS the answer? REVIVAL! Believers need to stop complaining, whining, and living in fear! Jesus said THIS right before He ascended into Heaven! Matthew 28:18-20:
18 Jesus approached and, breaking the silence, said to them, All authority (all power of rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. 19 Go then and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 Teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days (perpetually, uniformly, and on every occasion), to the [very] close and consummation of the age. Amen (so let it be). AMP
ALL power was given to Jesus at His resurrection! HE told us to go, IN THAT POWER, and not just get people born again, but MAKE DISCIPLES! Believers must know and act on the Word of God so that HIS glory is evident in the earth and THEN the people of God will take the Word of God, by the Spirit of God, and change situations and circumstances! While we are still here, before the catching away of the Church, WE are to OCCUPY! That doesn't mean sit around complaining about the world until we get "rescued" in the Rapture! WE are to be using HIS authority to bring Heaven to those on earth! Have you never heard THIS from Romans 2:4?
4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? KJV
Shalom in Him!
