No Backsliding

Proverbs 14:22: Do they not go astray who devise evil? But mercy and truth belong to those who devise good.

Devising evil ultimately results in some form of ruin, whether physical, mental, or spiritual. Those who have God living in them, who have good living in them, speak truth and are merciful. So, let us continually focus on our Savior and ask that He would live in a us moment by moment.

Those who slip back into a hard and ill mind against God will become like their heart, a heart that they think nobody knows of, a cold, sickly, violent heart that only lives for self. Those who continue to call on God for their strength will be filled and always joyful because their Father cares for them.

^a = Proverbs 14:22: The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways, but a good man will be satisfied from above.