Read Proverbs 23:10
Do you remember what a landmark is from a couple of days ago? Proverbs 22:29 says that we should not remove
a landmark. In our verse today, Solomon
goes on to say that when we remove the old landmarks, there is trouble
ahead. If we remove the old property
landmarks, no one knows where their property ends and where someone else’s property
begins. But sneaky people like other people to not know where their property ends or
begins. The sneaky land owner just acts
like his property goes further than it really does. They like to make their
back yard bigger and bigger while their neighbor’s back yard is getting smaller
and smaller. But they need a landmark to
mark where their property ends and where their neighbor’s property begins. In Solomon’s day, a sneaky neighbor would
remove the property landmark so that no one knew exactly where the property
line had been. Then this sneaky neighbor
would just take more and more of his neighbor’s land. No one knew for sure, because the sneaky
neighbor had removed the land mark. He
had just got away with stealing a little bit of his neighbor’s land. But the sneaky neighbor had forgotten one
thing. God was watching. God saw what he had done. Are you like the sneaky neighbor? If a toy doesn’t belong to you, do you write
your name on it and then claim that it is yours. Remember, God is watching. If you and your brother or sister get some
candy at the store and you eat all of your candy up, do you then pretend that
the candy lying on the table is your candy?
Remember, God is watching. He
sees everything that you do. Do the
right thing. Don’t be like the sneaky
neighbor and remove the old landmarks.
Be fair with everyone that you know.
You will be happy and God will be pleased.
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