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May 22 - Proverbs 24:1-7 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. And it's Yvonne, too.
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  Hello Yvonne, it's Friday. It is the 22nd of May.
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  How are you going? I'm going great.
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  And you know how sometimes you give us an interesting little
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  tidbit about today is actually the International Day of Eating
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  Lasagna? That is not today, but.
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  What is today Yvonne? Today is called National Don't
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  Fry Day and no. That is fried.
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  I don't fry day. And that is not about eating
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  vegetables that are not fried, It is actually about the
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  National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention started this
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  initiative about not getting sunburnt.
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  That's very topical in our house for certain children of ours
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  loving to go fishing without correct sun gear on and getting
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  burnt. Yes, but not anymore.
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  Definitely. They've turned over a new leaf
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  with that. They're doing great, great
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  improvement. You know who you are.
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  And I was amazed to read that it was actually 1894 that they
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  first realised that sunlight and being sunburned actually cause
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  skin cancer. That's like 130 years ago.
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  We've known that this is a bad thing.
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  That is a very long time ago and I am definitely giving away my
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  age here, but I remember as a girl the Slip Slop Slap Sun
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  safety campaign which was actually launched way back in
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  1981, which is quite a while ago now. 45 years ago, but it's
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  still so useful. We often say slip, slop, slap.
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  Yes, we do. Very cool.
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  And just like sunscreen can protect us from being burnt,
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  wisdom can protect us from being burnt too.
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  Yes it can. Being burnt by bad decisions in
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  life. So how about let's dive in,
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  shall we? And let's read together Proverbs
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  24 verses one to seven. Don't envy evil people or desire
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  their company. For their hearts, plot violence
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  and their words always stir up trouble.
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  A house is built by wisdom and becomes strong through good
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  sense. Through knowledge, its rooms are
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  filled with all sorts of precious riches and valuables.
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  The wise are mightier than the strong, and those with knowledge
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  grow stronger and stronger. So don't go to war without wise
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  guidance. Victory depends on having many
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  advisers. Wisdom is too lofty for fools
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  among leaders at the city gate. They have nothing to say.
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  And again. Don't envy evil people or desire
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  their company. For their hearts, plot violence
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  and their words always stir up trouble.
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  A house is built by wisdom and becomes strong through good
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  sense. Through knowledge, its rooms are
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  filled with all sorts of precious riches and valuables.
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  The wise are mightier than the strong, and those with knowledge
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  grow stronger and stronger. So don't go to war without wise
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  guidance. Victory depends on having many
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  advisers. Wisdom is too lofty for fools
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  among leaders at the city gate. They have nothing to say.
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  Well, that is a cool little section, isn't it?
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  It's a great picture isn't it? I just have this mental picture
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  of this amazing, well built, strong house.
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  That and wisdom I need more of. It and it's so interesting, you
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  know, we love collecting stuff. We love going shopping and
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  coming home with things to fill up our rooms.
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  But this is that. It's knowledge that fills up our
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  rooms. You know it.
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  It makes us think about learning and being wise and having
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  knowledge, and that is what fills the rooms of our lives
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  with good things. And the rooms of our heart.
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  Yeah, that's that's wonderful. Really wonderful.
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  And I love how it says don't go to war without wise guidance.
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  How often do we want to go to war?
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  How often do we read an email and like, write?
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  I'm gonna set them straight. Slow down.
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  Let's get some wise guidance before we go to war right it?
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  Sounds like sage advice. Well, Lord, thank you for this
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  sage advice. Thank you that you place wisdom
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  at the heart of everything that we should be aspiring toward.
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  And wisdom is not us getting smarter and smarter, but us
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  relying more and more on you. Well, thank you that you are a
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  God who can be known. And we know you because he gave
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  us Jesus and we look at him and his life and we know and we see
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  that you are a God of grace and a God of justice, but a God of
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  mercy. And so we thank you that you
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  reach into our lives and that we can bit by bit have a bit of
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  knowledge by bit of knowledge learn to know you more and to be
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  wiser depending on you. So may this always be the goal
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  of our lives. And each day we love you and we
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  praise you. And it's in the name of Jesus
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  that we pray these things. Amen.
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  Amen.