Day 325 – Favor

Proverbs 11:27 He who earnestly seeks good finds favor, but trouble will come to him who looks for evil.

God’s names:

Yeshuwa – Jesus

Elohiym – Supreme God

JEHOVAH – Self-existent, Eternal

Soter – Savior

Kurios – Supreme Authority

Iesous – Jesus

Theos – Supreme Divinity

Pneuma – Violent Wind, Breath, Spirit

Huios of Anthropos – Son of Man

God’s character:

Favor

Good

Judgment

Teacher

People make plans early in life about what they want to do with their lives, the jobs they want to have, if they want to marry and have children. Nobody plans to end up in jail or prison. However, those who listen to troublemakers will find nothing but trouble.

Solomon saw the good and bad in people every day as king of Israel. He saw how Elohiym blessed those who sought JEHOVAH. He also saw the trouble people brought on themselves when they didn’t seek Elohiym.

What kind of person were you before you accepted Yeshuwa as Soter and Kurios? Did you try to do what was good and acceptable? Or did you find yourself in trouble and end up in jail or prison? Where did you hear about Yeshuwa and turn to Him and the blessings He alone can give? Was it in a church pew? Did a friend tell you the good news about Yeshuwa? Or did you find Yeshuwa in a jail or prison cell?

People from every walk of life find Yeshuwa when they least expect it. Even those who went to church every Sunday, knew about Him and His love, never got into trouble, and thought they were good Christians, found out they needed to take one more step for salvation – accepting Him as Soter and Kurios.

Nicodemus is a good example of someone who read the Torah every day and tried to live a good life.

John 3:1 There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Iesous by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from Theos; for no one can do these signs that You do unless Theos is with him.”

 3 Iesous answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of Theos.”

 4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

 5 Iesous answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Pneuma, he cannot enter the kingdom of Theos. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Pneuma is pneuma. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Pneuma.”

 9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”

 10 Iesous answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? 11 Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Huios of Anthropos who is in heaven. 14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the Huios of Anthropos must be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For Theos so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Huios, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For Theos did not send His Huios into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Huios of Theos. 19 This is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 However, he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in Theos.”

No one was good before they accepted Yeshuwa. However, they sought good. They looked for it and found it when they found Yeshuwa.

Romans 3:9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are under sin. 10 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after Theos. 12 They turned aside; they became unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one.” 13 “Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they practiced deceit”; “the poison of asps is under their lips”; 14 “whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.” 15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 destruction and misery are in their ways; 17 and the way of peace they have not known.” 18 “There is no fear of Theos before their eyes.”

What kind of person were you? What did it take for you to find and know Yeshuwa as Soter and Kurios?

Let’s pray: Father, You alone know the person I was before I accepted You as Savior and Lord. I was blind until Your Holy Spirit opened my eyes to Your truth. Help me seek You every day and not become complacent to the world and its evil ways. Keep me in the hollow of Your hand and the apple of Your eye. Give me Your favor and blessings as I diligently seek You with my whole life. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

Copyright © 10 December 2025 by Valerie Routhieaux