Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
This passage seems easy to understand.
There is what he calls the works of men
This is the impulse of the flesh. It can refer to that “wood, hay and stubble”[1] when a person wastes his life in whatever earthly, temporal pursuit he chooses. It would certainly also include those acts of humanity the Bible describes as “excess of riot.”[2]
These works are further described as “the paths of the destroyer”
They are not what God would have of us. They are the steps of the devil. If he can lead a man to do nothing more than waste his life, then he has succeeded. Often, he can lead them on a much more destructive path than even that.
It is the Word of God that lights a path away from such destruction
And so, it is such an utter and absolute shame that men spend so little time reading and meditating upon the Words from God’s lips.
[1] 1 Corinthians 3:12-13 (KJV)
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
[2] 1 Peter 4:4 (KJV)
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
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