Bedside Watchman THE WAY TO HELL

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March 29th -- Proverbs 7

THE WAY TO HELL

YOUTH would eat unwholesome things and walk in hurtful ways, because they are pleasant for the time being, and do not, in their first impressions, show him the mischief. Knowledge, parentally enforced where there is wisdom, steps in and says, "Don't". The child either has loving confidence in the restriction, and submits willingly to the disagreeable denial to find out afterwards the sweetness of wisdom; or dislikes the "don't" and yields only to compulsion, but afterwards to discover the same lesson. Youth grown up, i.e. men and women, old and young, shows the same tendency to be led by the appearance of things, but lacks, in the absence of the kingdom of God, the guidance which is the privilege of some children. In most things, they judge by proximate sensations, and consequently, go astray. It is pleasant to be free from restraint, and therefore, they go, "every one to his own way", to find at last that the pleasant ways of the natural man incline to darkness and death.

ROBERT ROBERTS, Seasons of Comfort, pages 139-140