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May 22 - Proverbs 6 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends. It's shown here.
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  It is Wednesday. It is the 22nd of May.
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  And here we are, a whole nother day that you have tapped on play
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  and invited me into the shape of your day so that together we can
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  reshape what our day looks like around God's Word.
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  And today, today's an awesome day.
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  Did you realise I did not know this, That today is the
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  International Day of Biological Diversity?
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  Did I get that right? Yes, biological diversity.
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  Today is a day that people all around the world would be
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  thinking, how can me and my life actually make a difference in
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  preserving the incredible world that we live in, with all the
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  different aspects of the biological makeup, which all hum
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  and sing together in the most wonderful way and like magic,
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  sustain each other in balance. And if you want to learn more,
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  just do a little Internet search for the International Day of
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  Biological Diversity and all these clever practical bits of
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  advice come up if you're interested.
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  Things like eat food that's grown locally, Learn more about
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  the chemicals that we use in our daily life to know what they do
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  to the world around us. Plan your next holiday to be a
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  green holiday without a massive carbon footprint.
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  Lots of things to consider as we work out how we can be good
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  citizens of the world, how we can care for this incredible
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  creation. Thank God has invited us to
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  continue the ongoing work of creation and care.
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  But all of that aside, today we will continue lessons for daily
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  life. This next section is called.
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  We will continue to sit down by this Father's side, by this
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  teacher side, as he will share with us these little Nuggets of
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  wisdom, the wisdom of Solomon kept for all of these millennia
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  so that you and I can benefit from them.
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  Let us read them together in Proverbs Chapter 6.
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  My child, if you have put up security for a friend's debt or
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  agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger, if you have trapped
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  yourself by your agreement and are caught by what you said,
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  follow my advice and save yourself, for you have placed
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  yourself at your friend's mercy. Now swallow your pride.
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  Go and beg to have your name erased.
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  Don't put it off. Do it now.
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  Don't rest until you do. Save yourself like a gazelle
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  escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a nest.
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  Take a lesson from the ants, you lazy bones.
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  Learn from their ways and become wise, though they have no Prince
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  or governor or ruler to make them work a labour hard all
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  summer, gathering food for the winter.
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  But you lazy bones, how long will you sleep?
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  When will you wake up a little extra sleep, a little more
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  slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest?
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  Then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit.
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  Scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.
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  What are worthless and wicked people like?
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  They are constant liars, signalling their deceit with a
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  wink of the eye, a nudge of the fortore, the wiggle of fingers.
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  Their perverted hearts plot evil, and they constantly stir
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  up trouble. But they will be destroyed,
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  suddenly, broken in an instant beyond all hope of healing.
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  There are six things the Lord hates, no, seven things he
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  detests. Haughty eyes, a lying tongue.
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  Hands that kill the innocent, A heart that plots evil, feet that
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  race to do wrong. A false witness who pours out
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  lies. A person who sows discord in a
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  family. My son, obey your father's
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  commands and don't neglect your mother's instruction.
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  Keep their words always in your heart.
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  Tie them around your neck when you walk there.
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  Council will lead you when you sleep.
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  They will protect you when you wake up.
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  They will advise you for their command is a lamp and their
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  instruction a light. Their corrective discipline is
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  the way to life. It will keep you from the
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  immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of a promiscuous woman.
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  Don't last for her beauty. Don't let her coy glances seduce
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  you, for a prostitute will bring you to poverty, but sleeping
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  with another man's wife will cost you your life.
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  Can a man scoop a flame into his lap and not have his clothes
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  catch on fire? Can he walk on hot coals and not
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  blister his feet? So it is with a man who sleeps
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  with another man's wife. He who embraces her will not go
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  unpunished. Excuses might be found for a
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  thief who steals because he is starving, but if he is caught,
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  he must pay back seven times what he stole, even if he has to
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  sell everything in his house. But the man who commits adultery
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  is an utter fool, for he destroys himself.
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  He will be wounded and disgraced.
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  His shame will never be erased, for the woman's jealous husband
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  will be furious, and he will show no mercy when he takes
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  revenge. He will accept no compensation,
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  nor be satisfied with the payoff of any size.
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  Lord, you are a forgiving God, and you meet us in our place of
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  brokenness, where we struggle, struggle to live in the way that
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  you have called us to live. But Lord, that does not mean
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  that you want us just to follow our whims and then come to you
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  for forgiveness. But you call us to a higher way.
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  You call us to the way of fidelity to you, to your
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  Kingdom. That doesn't put us in our
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  desires, our urges and our needs at the apex of that pyramid of
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  importance. But it puts your needs.
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  In fact, it puts the needs of others.
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  It puts the needs of the vulnerable, puts the needs of
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  the hurting, the needs of the downtrodden above ours.
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  Our Lord Jesus, soften our hearts.
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  Holy Spirit, change us from the inside so that our hearts would
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  desire to live lives of service and peace and discipline, to
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  live lives In Sync with your Kingdom, because you always are
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  best and your wisdom is worth pursuing.
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  So we lay everything that we would otherwise hold dear.
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  We lay it down at the foot of the cross, and we just thank you
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  Jesus, for saving us from this way.
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  We love you. We worship you alone, and we
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  pray all of this in your holy name.
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  Ah man.