Day 170 – Life

Proverbs 21:15 It is a joy for the just to do justice, but destruction will come to the workers of iniquity. 16 A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead. 17 He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich. 18 The wicked will be a ransom for the righteous, and the unfaithful for the upright.

• God’s names:
• Elohiym – Supreme God
• Theos – Supreme Divinity
• Iesous/Yeshuwa – Jesus
• Christos – Anointed One, Messiah
• Kurios – Supreme Authority
• Soter – Savior

• God’s character:
• Joy
• Just
• Understanding
• Righteous
• Faithful
• Upright
• Wisdom

For as long as people have been on earth, injustice, destruction, wickedness of every kind have reigned in the hearts of man to bring trouble to those who want to live calm peaceable lives. People love pleasure more than they want to follow rigid rules that bring peace and stability to their lives. They look at people who follow rules as boring. You see the same theme in books, television, and movies. Every kind of evil is seen as something to long for. However, what does that mean for the people who live unrighteous lives? It means they will rest with the dead at the end of their lives.

Solomon saw every kind of depravity the human heart could devise. He even participated in it for a season.

Ecclesiastes 2:1 I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure”; but surely, this also was vanity. 2 I said of laughter — “Madness!”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?” 3 I searched in my heart how to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.

Solomon saw the folly of living foolishly with total abandonment. He saw that living in such a manner was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:12 Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the man do who succeeds the king? — Only what he has already done. 13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. 14 The wise man’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I perceived that the same event happens to them all. 15 So I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, it also happens to me, and why was I then wiser?” Then I said in my heart, “This also is vanity.” 16 For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come. And how does a wise man die? As the fool!

With everything Solomon experienced, he made one final statement about how people should live their lives.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear Elohiym and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all. 14 For Elohiym will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.

What was your life like before you became a Christian? Did you live like the person Solomon described, or did you live what people termed a dull, boring life because you wanted to keep yourself from trouble?

Now look at your life since you became a Christian. Have you turned completely away from a lifestyle that only brings eternal death and embraced a life that brings total joy?

Even Paul had trouble doing everything right.

Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of Theos according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank Theos — through Iesous Christos our Kurios! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of Theos, but with the flesh the law of sin.

Paul showed us that there is hope for us. We all sin, but there is a plan Yeshuwa gave us that doesn’t forever condemn us but frees us from the chains of death Satan bound us with before we accepted Yeshuwa as Soter and Kurios.

Follow me down the Roman Road.

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of Theos,

Romans 5:8 But Theos demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christos died for us.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of Theos is eternal life in Christos Iesous our Kurios.

Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth the Kurios Iesous and believe in your heart that Theos has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

And finally, when you sin as we all do, John also told us Theos would forgive us when we confess our sin to Him.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (NKJV)

There is no more condemnation.

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christos Iesous, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Pneuma. 2 For the law of the Pneuma of life in Christos Iesous has made me free from the law of sin and death.

If you call yourself a Christian, Yeshuwa took all your sin on Himself on the cross. He set you free. The only one who condemns you is you. Yeshuwa doesn’t. He set you free.

Let’s pray: Father, thank you for showing me that my life isn’t found in the pleasures of this world, but in Your Son who loved me so much, He died for me. Help me not to condemn myself when I sin, but confess my sin and see it forgiven and stricken from my life through the blood of Your Son. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

Copyright © 8 July 2026 by Valerie Routhieaux