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July 4 - Proverbs 14:13-18 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here, it's Friday you clever thing,
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  you made it to the end of another week.
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  It is the 4th of July and sadly I'm all alone at the microphone
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  today. If you haven't been listening
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  this week, this is the week we have been diving head first into
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  the Song of Solomon, reading some beautiful love poetry and
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  the lovely Yvonne. My wife has joined us so far
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  this week and it's been lovely. So if you haven't listened to
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  those you should go back and listen.
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  What a treat it is to have her at the microphone with me.
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  Much less lonely. But today I'm not lonely at all
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  because I got your company and I got all the wisdom in the world
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  delivered by our old friend King Solomon.
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  It's a very King Solomon kind of a week this week.
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  Bit of love poetry and then a bit of wisdom poetry.
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  Well done, you, Solomon. All right, friends, you're ready
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  to get a bit smarter with me to tap into some age old wisdom.
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  Great. Me too.
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  Let us read together Proverbs 1413 to 18.
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  Laughter can conceal a heavy heart, but when the laughter
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  ends, the grief remains. Backsliders get what they
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  deserve. Good people receive their
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  reward. Only simpletons believe
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  everything they're told. The prudent carefully consider
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  their steps, the wise are cautious and avoid danger.
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  Fools plunge ahead with reckless confidence, short tempered
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  people do foolish things, and schemers are hated.
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  Simpletons are clothed with foolishness.
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  But the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
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  And again, laughter can conceal a heavy heart.
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  But when the laughter ends, the grief remains.
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  Backsliders get what they deserve.
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  Good people receive their reward.
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  Only simpletons believe everything they're told.
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  The prudent carefully consider their steps.
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  The wise are cautious and avoid danger.
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  Fools plunge ahead with reckless confidence, Short tempered
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  people do foolish things, and schemers are hated.
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  Simpletons are clothed with foolishness, but the prudent are
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  crowned with knowledge. My Lord, thank you for your
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  wisdom through the ages to us. And in this first proverb that
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  we read today, we read that laughter can conceal a heavy
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  heart, but that even when the laughter ends, that grief
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  remains. Our Lord, you know the journey
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  of grief that so many of us have to travel.
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  In fact, all of us have to travel at some point or another,
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  and that yes, laughter can come and our hearts can be glad for a
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  moment, but that grief must take its course.
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  But thank you for this reminder that all parts of the human
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  experience are valid and important.
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  And Lord, you know that in these modern days, the hedonistic
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  desire is to get rid of all this painful emotion like grief or
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  heartache. But Lord, when we love and we
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  lose, we experience grief. Lord, help us not to fight that
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  grief, but just to let that grief run its course as we just
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  respect it and allow it to do its work.
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  Lord, because Your wisdom resides in that grief as it
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  enables us to process the losses that life will throw at us.
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  And Lord, yes, that laughter may still come even in the midst of
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  grief. That laughter can come and go as
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  a natural break, giving us some levity, and that then grief can
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  continue its work. And Lord, as we live through
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  this life of ups and downs and brokenness leading back into
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  wholeness, we know that ultimately you are waiting to
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  restore us fully and bring us entirely back into wholeness
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  with your peace and your presence binding us back
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  together in that perfect peace that irenae, that peace that you
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  offer us, bringing all those broken shards back together in
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  you. So we look forward to that day
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  of wholeness, and we pray all of this with grateful hearts.
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  In your name, Jesus, Amen.