Proverbs 2:12

The book of Proverbs gives us insights into so many different areas of life. The book gives us instruction on how to live our lives for God. Here is a proverb that gives us insight about being delivered from evil:

Proverbs 2:12 (ESV)

delivering you from the way of evil,

from men of perverted speech,

In the Lord's Prayer, Christ gives us a pattern of how to pray.  Although some believe that it is the actual prayer we are to pray (and repeating it with meaning is certainly a good thing to do), the prayer is probably more of an example of how to pray more than a specific prayer we are to do.  Whatever the reason Jesus spoke it to His disciples it is certainly clarifying one thing we should pray for:  We are to ask God to "deliver" us from evil.   So, when we read the above proverb, along side that instruction from Christ, we see the method God uses to accomplish His answers to our prayer.  When we ask God to "deliver us from evil" Solomon is telling us that we can be delivered from the way of evil and the people who speak perverse things by making sure we are seeking God's Word (as silver) and following God's Word.  That is the theme of Proverbs 2:1-11.  Asking God to deliver us from evil without utilizing His method is like ordering ice cream and refusing to eat.   God has given us the method to be delivered from evil.   Pray for it and seek His Word and receive it.  Both are needed.