Day 3577 of the 7 day Bible verse challenge.
Proverbs 14:16 NIV To shun is to say that something is utterly unwelcome. But alas, a prideful security is left to merely hope that something we don’t want won’t break in while we’re not looking. Indeed, unwelcome and unwanted are perhaps fairly close in both spelling and speech, but alas they’re quite different in terms of design and disaster. For to say something is unwanted is done from a prideful perspective which hopes that said unwanted outcome never comes near. But for something to be unto us unwelcome, well, even if it comes near, still we have the resolve to stand up and say firmly that it is not welcome here. And such is just what we we’re called to say of evil. Not that we simply don’t want to experience it or admit it found within our errors, but to in fact go so far as to fear God so much that we refuse to welcome it in our lives, even if it means a life-long fight to keep it out. Sadly there’s a quite preferential comfort to our commonly sought sense of feeling as secured...