Week 22 Proverbs 4
The Way is called the path of the righteous (person). The Way is progressive & developmental & evolutionary. It starts dimly. But gradually things get brighter and clearer over time. The early stages of The Way are a bit like sunrise: the path of the righteous is like the first gleam of the dawn. Shadowy and opaque at first but as I wait it eventually gets ever brighter till the full light of day.
By contrast the way of the wicked is like deep darkness. So in one way it’s kind of similar to how The Way is at the beginning. The difference is that The Anti-Way stays dark. It doesn’t get lighter over time. There’s no point in waiting for the dawns-early-light since morning will never ever come. It’s perpetually dark. Permanently dark. Still…since it’s the only way an evil person’s got he walks along the dark path. He has to. He can’t just stand there inertly. He starts walking (even though he probably shouldn’t since he’s functionally blind). So then he trips and falls over something in the path (it’s so dark he doesn’t know what he fell over). Tripping and falling is going to be a pretty major component of an evil person’s journey along The Anti-Way. Going by feel. Still…I guess he figures anything’s better than The Way.
Note: quotes from Proverbs 4:18 19 (NIV). End-of-month reading report: the 563 chapters I’ve read are about 47% of the bible…and as of today that’s in roughly 42% of the year.