"The Key to Life"

 

“The Key to Life”

 

Take hold of my instructions; don’t let them go.  Guard them, for they are the key to life.   Proverbs 4:13

 

This is an important lesson of Solomon, for the benefit of one of his sons, yet I believe that this could be very APPLICABLE to the TRUE BELIEVER and could be just the thing that the ALMIGHTY GOD would want them to do.  So, let’s look at this as though it were a message from GOD to His Children, concerning the IMPORTANCE of NOT just obtaining WISDOM, but to also HOLD tight to it, especially when following INSTRUCTIONS on how to LIVE a RIGHTEOUS LIFE, in a WICKED WORLD. 

 

Solomon tells his son, that these instructions in WISE LIVING, should be HELD ON TO and GUARDED, because they are the KEY to LIFE.  I believe that God would want us to KNOW this too.  And if the TRUE BELIEVER would HOLD ON TO and GUARD the WORD of the LIVING GOD, they WOULD be ABLE to POSSESS the KEY to ETERNAL LIFE.  That KEY being SALVATION, which is ONLY obtainable, through the SHED BLOOD of the ONLY SON of GOD, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, who PAID IN FULL the DEBT for the SINS of ALL MANKIND.  And it is up to MANKIND to ACCEPT or REJECT this KEY.

 

Solomon goes on to tell his son that the WAY of the RIGHTEOUS, which is the WAY of WISDOM, is like the first rays of the LIGHT of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until the FULL LIGHT of noonday.  But the WAY of the WICKED is like TOTAL DARKNESS, like the BLACKNESS of the middle of the night, and causes one to STUMBLE.  If we are WISE, we will choose the WAY of WISDOM or the WAY of the RIGHTEOUS.  And we will WALK in the LIGHT of the LORD JESUS CHRIST. 

 

Then Solomon gives this warning:  GUARD your HEART above ALL else, for it DETERMINES the course of your LIFE.  The ONLY WAY for you to possess the KEY to LIFE, (ETERNAL LIFE), is to TURN AWAY FROM your sinful lifestyle and TURN TO GOD, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  And ADMIT that you are a SINNER, in NEED of a SAVIOR, the Lord Jesus Christ.  And BELIEVE, with ALL your HEART, that JESUS died for YOU, and is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for you, before God.  Then CONFESS your SINS to Him, and ask Him for His FORGIVENESS.  And you MUST ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION, the KEY to LIFE, and spend your ETERNITY in HEAVEN, with ALL its BLESSINGS and ESCAPE HELL, with ALL its HORRORS, and NO WAY to ESCAPE, once you are there.  SO, do this NOW, while you still can.  He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!