Fighting "Flashy" Things | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | January 25, 2023
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🗓️ 25 January 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.0 | Our Reading titled Fighting Flashy Things was written by Alison Keita. |
| 0:15.0 | In the 1960s-era TV series, The Andy Griffith Show, a man tells Andy he should let his son, |
| 0:21.6 | Opie, decide how he wants to live. Andy disagrees. You can't let a youngan decide for himself. |
| 0:28.8 | He'll grab it the first flashy thing with shiny ribbons on it. Then, when he finds out |
| 0:33.7 | there's a hook in it, it's too late. Wrong ideas come packaged with so much glitter |
| 0:38.9 | that it's hard to convince them that other things might be better in the long run. He concludes |
| 0:44.6 | that it's important for parents to model right behavior and help keep temptation away. Andy's |
| 0:52.2 | words are related to the wisdom found in Proverbs. Start children off on the way they |
| 0:57.3 | should go, and even when they are old, they will not turn from it. Although many may read these |
| 1:03.4 | words as a promise, they're really a guide. All of us are called to make our own decision to believe |
| 1:09.3 | in Jesus, but we can help lay a biblical |
| 1:12.3 | foundation through our love for God and Scripture, and we can pray that as the little ones |
| 1:18.4 | under our care mature, they choose to receive Christ as Savior and walk in His ways and not in |
| 1:26.2 | the paths of the wicked. |
| 1:35.1 | Our own victory over flashy things through the Holy Spirit's enabling is also powerful testimony. |
| 1:49.0 | Jesus' spirit helps us to withstand temptation and molds our lives into examples worth imitating. Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Proverbs chapter 22, verses 1 through 6. |
| 1:57.0 | A good name is more desirable than great riches. To be esteemed is better than silver or gold. |
| 2:04.7 | Rich and poor have this in common. The Lord is the maker of them all. The prudence see danger and take refuge, |
| 2:12.9 | but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. Humility is the fear of the Lord. Its wages are riches |
| 2:20.4 | and honor and life. In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls, but those who would |
| 2:27.4 | preserve their life stay far from them. Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old, they will not turn from it. |
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