{
  "Date":"12-05",
  "Day Number":"339",
  "Date Title":" December 5, 2025",
  "Scripture Reference":"Proverbs 29:6",
  "Scripture Excerpt":"Evil people are trapped by sin, but the righteous escape, shouting for joy. ",
  "Devotion Text":"Satan is a master at setting traps for believers. He is called the \u201cfowler\u201d in Psalm 124:7 (KJV), that is, a person who traps birds. Perhaps as a child you watched someone take bread crumbs and make a trail that led inside a box. The box was propped up on a stick, and a string was tied to the stick. The fowler waited behind a fence or a building while an unsuspecting bird followed the bread crumbs into the box. Then, at just the right moment, the fowler pulled the string, and the bird was caught.\n\nDo you know someone who is following \u201cbread crumbs\u201d right now? Little enticements toward money, sex, addictions, or positions come at just the right time to keep the person moving toward the \u201cbox.\u201d Satan knows that if he can get someone who has no accountability to others to move down a sinful path, he can ultimately \u201cpull the string,\u201d and the unsuspecting person will be trapped.\n\nPublic embarrassment, loss of influence, and ultimately eternal death are Satan\u2019s intentions as the fowler. By God\u2019s grace, however, \u201cwe escaped like a bird from a hunter\u2019s trap. The trap is broken, and we are free!\u201d (Psalm 124:7)."
}