Category: Life Wisdom

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Proverbs 10

When reading Proverbs 10 for my devotions today 2 verses hit me:

9The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out.

Basically though sometimes the easy way seems the best though sometimes the wrong way seems easiest. Always take the way that is ok and rightious in God’s sight. For your walk with be secure the fear of someone finding you out will never be there, the problems that come with lieing and sinning will catch up to you.

Second:

18 He who conceals his hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

When I first read this I was kinda like ok so do not hide your hatred for someone, but also don’t talk about them. Kinda like how does that work but it really does, I feel like this verse is saying if you have  problems with someone go directly to them and deal with it quickly, don’t talk bad about them but rather go to them and talk about the problem right way. Deal with it don’t store it up and make sure you do not use it against them, don’t use something they did against you to make others have a problem with them.

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What is Church?

There is a professor at Multnomah bible college that was quoted saying church is this:

Church is the gathering of people who share some common beliefs and religious standards but who’s true allegiance lies somewhere else.

When I was being told about this it really hit me. How true is this for so many people now. If something else comes up then we do that instead of church. Instead of making church our first priority and making putting time in at church helping to grow the church rather we spend time on other “noble” causes.

When the chance to go to a Football game comes up, or the chance to play with your team in whatever sport it may be comes up, or when your friends ask you to do something, why do we say to our selfs Oh it is just one time I am just missing church once not a big deal. It would be better if we thought to our selfs, I can go to a football game some other time, I can miss this game with my team I have lots of others, I can hang out or go do something another day because today what really matters is that I am in church worshiping God.

So yes church is simply a gathering of people with common interests who’s true allegiance lies somewhere else. Don’t let your self be one of them, get your priorities right make sure your true allegiance is to Jesus Christ and to following him, not to something of this world.

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Correction for the wise

In Proverbs 9:8 it reads “Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you.” Just an interesting though and the verse before it says you are setting your self up for insult when you correct the mocker for they have no interest in changing there ways. I see several things in this verse.

First don’t waste your time correcting those who will not listen to you. If you have tried once or twice and they do not listen then leave them alone and do not waste your time and energy trying to help them.

Second don’t take offense when people correct you. When someone corrects you it shows that they believe you might actually change they view you as worth the time it takes to correct or make wiser. If you become angry at peoples corrections then you are proving yourself not to be wise but if you take that correction gracefully and think about it and change something if need be you will be seen as wiser and you will be wiser.

Third if you never receive correction from anyone maybe this means that you have ignored people 1 to many times and they feel you will not listen… you are not wise enough to take their advice. If you are not getting corrected I can assure you of one thing it is not because you are perfect, far more likely is that you have turned down peoples advice to much and they do not view you as someone worth “guiding/helping”