Today's Devotion: A man who remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy. (The Holy Bible : New International Version. electronic ed. Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 1996, c1984, S. Pr 29:1)

Stubbornness does not help us. We need to listen, especially to what God is saying to us.

Today's Comments: One needs to heed rebuke, when it is given. If we do not, punishment may not come right away, but it will come sooner or later. This one passage is a sign for our time. For so many years, we have allowed our greed to keep hold of us. We thought that we could beat inflation by investing in the stock market, for example, but our greed to make money by investing in anything and everything has now cost us dearly. Many of our investments have lost forty percent of their value, or more. If we heavily invested in financial stocks or companies like General Motors, we lost almost all. Despite the fact that we were warned, we failed to listen. And, if we fail to listen to God's rebukes and warnings, we may find ourselves in danger of losing more than just our wealth.