I'm thinking today of Proverbs 2 .13. Proverbs
2 .13 says, Who leave the paths of uprightness
to walk in the ways of darkness. Now this is
talking about discretion and wisdom and God himself
will protect us from people who do that. But
it's interesting just to simply say that there
are people who do that. That there would be people
who would leave the paths of uprightness, which
are protected by God, the good paths, the paths
of doing the right things. and instead move on
to the paths of darkness. And darkness always
means ignorance, and ignorance is not bliss,
it's foolishness. And so can you imagine that
there would be those of us who would decide to
leave the paths of uprightness and instead walk
in the paths of darkness, which is to say ignorance
and just being wrong? Well, it has even been
us, hasn't it, at times? All have sinned and
fall short of the glory of God. The reality is
we need to walk the paths of uprightness. We
need to be the best person we possibly can be
under the auspices of our God. When Jesus tells
us to do something, we should do that. When God
wants us to do something, we should do that.
God helped us walk the paths of uprightness,
and his word says he will. Let me encourage you
a couple of quick things. So first of all, today,
really, tomorrow morning, because you'll probably
get this on Friday night, is the Grand Prix Race
Day at New Heights, starting at noon with free
lunch for everybody to come. We need some folks
to come and cheer on the kids as they race the
cars that they made from scratch. Starting at
noon at 255 Hefner Street in Toledo, you or anyone
you'd like to invite can come and join us until
we fill up the building as we race the cars the
kids have made. God bless you today, and pray
for this event even if you can't attend.