Proverbs 11:19

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: 

Proverbs 11:19 (ESV)

Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live,

but he who pursues evil will die.

Our world is lost in their pursuit for life, enjoyment, entertainment and fun.  They continue to follow the same paths as their fathers and hope to find the nirvana that alluded their predecessors.   Yet, they follow the same path.  They continue to walk the same steps and hope for different results.  Their fathers died in pain and sorrow and have nothing to show for their life of labor and pleasures' pursuits.  God has warned us countless times that a life absent Him will  end up in destruction and death.   Here, in the above proverb, we have another warning.   Like an expressway lined with sign after sign that the left lane ends ahead, we keep driving in that lane, as though we need no concern.  We drive like we think the lane will remain open just  for us.   Of course on the highway we see cars cram  over at the last minute and people let them in.   However, in God's Word there is no cramming at the end.  God is telling us that those who pursue evil will bring about death.  Those who pursue righteousness that is found in the atonement of Christ will find life.  Christ has pursued life for us and will give it to us freely as we repent and ask in faith.   The world simply keeps trying to obtain something that is not theirs to have.  Only Christ can give life and we pursued it by faith.   When we do that we attain life.