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October 17 - Proverbs 17:8-14 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here and it is Friday, it's 17th of
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  October and you are so clever. You've made it to the end of
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  another week, and here we get to bask in the anticipation of the
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  weekend ahead and read some proverbs together.
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  That's right, we get to travel through time back to sit at the
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  feet of the great King Solomon and hear these little snippets
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  of wisdom given to him by God for us so that we can be wiser
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  and live a wiser life. How good is that?
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  So as we come to the end of our week, let us come before our
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  God, Holy Spirit, transform us and shape us into your people
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  with this wisdom that you have captured for us today.
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  Oh yeah, let us do it. Let us read Proverbs chapter
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  17-8 to 14. A bribe is like a lucky charm.
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  Whoever gives one will prosper. Love prospers when a fault is
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  forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends.
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  A single rebuke does more for a person of understanding than 100
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  lashes on the back of a fool. Evil people are eager for
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  rebellion, but they will be severely punished.
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  It is safer to me to bear robbed of her Cubs than to confront a
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  full court and foolishness. If you repay good with evil,
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  evil will never leave your house.
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  Starting a quarrel is like opening a floodgate, so stop
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  before a dispute breaks out. And again, a bribe is like a
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  lucky charm. Whoever gives one will prosper.
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  Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it
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  separates close friends. A single rebuke does more for a
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  person of understanding than 100 lashes on the back of a fool.
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  Evil people are eager for rebellion, but they will be
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  severely punished. It is safer to me to bear robbed
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  of her Cubs than to confront a fool caught in foolishness.
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  If you repay good with evil, evil will never leave your
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  house. Starting a quarrel is like
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  opening a floodgate, so stop before a dispute breaks out.
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  Thank you, Jesus, that you show us the way of love and so
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  beautifully here. And verse 9 we read that love
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  prospers when a fault is forgiven.
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  Oh Gee, it's so easy and so tempting to hold on to the
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  wrongs of others. Pop it in our pockets so we can
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  pull it out when we need to argue our own righteousness and
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  their corruption. Lord, this is not your way.
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  Your way is to forgive. Your way is to love.
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  Love keeps no scores. So pray that you would take our
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  fallen spirit, our broken human way, and you would replace it
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  with your spirit of love. This love that keeps no score,
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  this love that draws together, builds relationship with
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  generosity and with kindness, so that our houses would not be
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  places of quarrelling and where we pay anything with evil, but
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  that this kindness and forgiveness can become who we
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  are. So our God of love, we thank you
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  for giving us this better way and for showing us what this
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  love looks like through giving us Jesus.
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  And we love you in return and pray that this love would be our
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  way in His name. Amen.