Keep Your Foot from Evil - Proverbs‬ ‭4:27‬ ‭

In today’s Biblical devotional for Christian women, we will ponder Proverbs 4:27 and its practical application in our daily lives. I will share with you how I personally battle two TWO evils in my own life (lust and gluttony), and I’ll help you examine your life and witness how God is leading your path straight.

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The examples I’ll be sharing are for adults only. Children should not be listening to this content. The examples of evil from my own personal life, which I’ll share today, will be relevant to most of the Christian women listening to my Christian podcast The Anna Szabo Show and reading my Christian blog Onlinediscipleshipforwomen.com

 

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There are three things you can expect:

 

1. You’ll hear the Biblical devotional I prepared for you
2. There will be an exercise for you to do in order to ponder Proverbs 4:27 as it relates to your own faith journey
3. I’ll pray for you to lift you up to God and ask for His peace, protection, provision, and promotion in your life

 

 

PART 1. BIBLICAL DEVOTIONAL FOR CHRISTIAN WOMEN

 

 

This is the most difficult devotional I have ever set out to create. I’m going to share with you my deepest struggles, which I’d prefer to forever keep to myself of course, but God called me to share my testimony and tell you my story to display His glory. 

 

God’s glory is not the only thing you’ll see displayed throughout this Biblical devotional for Christian women. You’ll witness what’s called “the human condition,” which is my endless struggle with the flesh. The flesh and the spirit always at odds within us, the Christian women who desire to obey and honor God. I desire to obey and honor God.

 

My Heavenly Father God specified two evils, and told me personally to flee from these two evils. What are they?

 

Proverbs 23:2 says: “put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony.”

 

Why is gluttony so evil?

 

Proverbs 23:21 explains this: “the glutton will come to poverty, and the drowsiness of overindulgence will clothe them with rags.”

 

Not only is it expensive to indulge in gluttony but also overindulgence in food leads to drowsiness, which is the opposite of what God’s word directs us to be - alert, aware, awake, and alive fully as His daughters and disciples of Jesus Christ. We can’t serve God being drowsy, which is a feeling of being sleepy and lethargic.

 

Whenever I indulge in gluttony, I feel not only sleepy and lethargic but also powerless as the desire for food overwhelms me. After I indulge in gluttony, I feel off my path, exactly the opposite of what Proverbs 4:27 teaches: “Do no