Our scriptural text today is coming from just a single verse of scripture.

Proverbs chapter 26 and verse 2.

Notice there these words, as the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse

causeless shall not come.

And I'm speaking simply from the subject, where did that come from?

Where did that come from?

It is interesting here that the Bible says in the good news translation of that same verse that curses

cannot hurt you unless you deserve them they are like birds that fly by and never light

that same verse says it in the passion translation. It says an undeserved curse will be

powerless to harm you. It may flutter over you like a bird, but it will find no place to land.

This is really letting us know that there is a cause for every curse that happens,

but an undeserved curse has no power to harm you.

When the Bible says here that the curse shall not causeless come, it means that if you haven't done anything wrong, nobody, no matter how evil they are and how powerful they are, they have no power to curse you.

You curse yourself when you walk in disobedience to God's word, but people don't have the power to curse you when you're

committed to live right. If you will do what's right, the curse shall not causeless come. Now,

what that does tell us on the other hand is that when you have lived in such a way, cursings were

always the result of walking in disobedience to the

ordinances of the laws of God. But if you walked in righteousness, then curses have no power in

your life. God has blessed us. And you cannot curse what God has blessed. So it is saying to us that there is a cause

for every curse. If you treat people badly, you tap into a law that you shall reap what you

what you sow. That means that if you've sown bad seeds and when something

bad comes back to haunt you, it is not that somebody else has cursed you, it's your own actions

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