Wandering Into a Nightmare

Wandering Into a Nightmare

Today's Three-minute Bible Study
Print, Study and Apply
Title: Wandering Into a Nightmare ------------------- Date: 5/18/2001
Keywords: "bury" "dead" "wander"
Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation.

Passage: Proverbs 21:16*

A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Questions

1. Did you ever get lost as a child? Was it because you wandered off?

2. What is meant by "the way of understanding?"

Practical help

In Matthew 8:21-22 there is an exchange between Jesus and a would-be disciple. He wants to follow Jesus but makes what seems to be a reasonable request. He says, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father."

Instead of saying, "Hey, that seems important, we'll wait for you," Jesus says, "Follow Me, and allow the dead to bury their own dead."

Sounds, pretty cold at first, but in actuality, the man was not saying his father had died. It is possible he was requesting that he be able to stay with his healthy father until he died, so he could first collect the inheritance and then catch up with Jesus later.

How important is following Jesus? Actually, it's a matter of life and death. When we choose to wander away from what we know to be truth and life (John 14:6), we actually enter another world -- the assembly of the dead. This is a group that seeks for life apart from truth and is satisfied by pornography instead of love.

It's expected that children will wander off at times distracted by silly things. Men and women should know better.

eXXit homepage
Index of three-minute studies
Copyright 2001 by eXXit
*"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLEŽ, Š Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."