Chapter 10-13

Our Pathway continues
Are you still with me? Are you reading a Proverb daily? If you are like me I needed to take a deep breath today Day 12 and consider days 10,11,&12 so many things to ponder, let us remember one day at a time. If you have fallen behind just start with what ever day it is and read the Proverb with that date on it i.e. June 12 read chapter 12. Such a great adventure (to borrow from Steven Curtis Chapmon) to see what God has in store for us this summer.
Chapter 10
Vs 1 A wise son makes a glad father
Vs 2 righteousness delivers from death
Vs 3 The Lord will not allow the righteous soul to famish this is where I paused today. What could cause a soul to famish? Lack of time with the Lord, lack of Bible Study, lack of group worship, lack of prayer time. Where do many look to fill this spot in us that only God can fill? “the righteous” those that have a persona relationship with God no longer have that void. Turn to Jesus today, surrender your will to Him, and accept Him as your savior.
What did this Chapter say to you?
Chapter 11
I was personally convicted by vs. 22 “as a ring of gold in a swine’s snort so is a lovely woman who lacks discretion”. So many times I react I speak without thinking, I respond in anger, I say hurtful things. I do not want to be like the wicked person in this chapter. I want to be like the righteous as in vs. 12 “but a man of understanding holds his peace” oh to know when to just “shut up”, but to also know when to speak-discretion.
Continue to pray with me about my/our discretion.
Chapter 12
Don’t you just live the first half of vs. 21 “no grave trouble will over take the righteous”? We will enjoy the splendor of a New Heaven and a New Earth. We will see Jesus daily and can walk with Him and talk with Him just think a restored but better Garden of Eden because this time there will be no serpent.
I do hope every one is enjoying reading Proverbs. What is God saying to you as you read this chapter? Is He calling you to turn to Him today? Don’t resist come to Him and join us in this New Heaven and Earth.
Chapter 13
All of these verses have something for every step of our path. Today the 2nd half of vs. 17 really spoke to me “a faithful ambassador brings health”
If I am a faithful ambassador for Jesus Christ I will bring health to others, I want to be this kind of person and I thin I can do this in two ways:
1. I want others to see Jesus in me and for their sin sickness to be washed away by the blood of Jesus-I must share the gospel with them
2. I want to use by certification (APN) to help people stay healthy, become healthier and to recover form illness or to be able to deal with the illness and by doing this to also have the opportunity to share Jesus with them. I am not real sure how this will work I am still praying about this and waiting on the Lord to open the door.
How exciting to wait on God to see what He has in mind.
What verse spoke to you today and what did it mean to you?