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February 6 - Proverbs 21:1-6 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. And it's a Friday, so it's
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  Yvonne, too. Hello honey, good to have you at
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  the microphone with me. I'm here, ready.
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  Yay for Fridays. So what do you think of being a
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  pastor's wife? Well, that's something new for
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  us. How?
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  Excitement. It is.
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  How exciting is that? A throwback to Kath and Kim.
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  I think so, yeah. OK, that's showing my age, isn't
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  it? Wow, look at you go, yeah, this
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  is you're going to rock at this role, Just FYI.
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  I'm going to muddle through out the front as minister and you
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  are just going to nail it, being that kind, compassionate, bubbly
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  person that everyone just adores.
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  OK, that's very sweet of you, but I don't know how this ended
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  up being a conversation about me.
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  All right. Let's make it less about you
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  then. That would make it more
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  comfortable. We're going to read Proverbs and
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  we are cracking open a new book of not a new book, a new chapter
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  of Proverbs beginning the 21st. And we have got exactly one more
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  year. It will be all the way up to the
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  end of January next year. And then we will, I think we are
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  going to dive back into Psalms. We'll get to do call and
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  response Psalms together each Friday.
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  How good will that? Be OK.
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  That's a lot. We're looking forward.
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  That's awesome. But we're going to get way
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  smarter between now and then. By or not smarter, wiser.
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  So let us dive in together and let's read Proverbs 21, verses 1
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  to 6. The King's heart is like a
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  stream of water directed by the Lord.
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  He guides it wherever he pleases.
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  People may be right in their own eyes, but the Lord examines
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  their heart. The Lord is more pleased when we
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  do what is right and just than when we offer Him sacrifices.
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  Haughty eyes, a proud heart, and evil actions are all sin.
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  Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty
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  shortcuts lead to poverty. Wealth created by a lying tongue
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  is a vanishing mist and a deadly trap.
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  And again, the King's heart is like a stream of water directed
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  by the Lord. He guides it wherever he
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  pleases. People may be right in their own
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  eyes, but the Lord examines their heart.
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  The Lord is more pleased when we do what is right and just than
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  when we offer Him sacrifices. Haughty eyes, a proud heart, and
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  evil actions are all sin. Good planning and hard work lead
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  to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.
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  Wealth created by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist and a deadly
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  trap. So much wisdom.
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  Well, the more proverbs that we read here.
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  I'm just struck by these recurring themes that keep
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  happening week after week or over the course of our time in
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  Proverbs. Absolute.
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  And the thing that really stood out to me today, which is one of
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  those themes, is where it says the Lord is more pleased when we
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  do what is right and just than when we offer him sacrifices.
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  You know, where so often worried about doing what will look good
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  and what will look appropriate, but God is actually really
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  interested in us being just and upright.
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  And then it goes on to talk about these haughty eyes and a
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  proud heart, you know, these things that we think are OK
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  because they're the quiet little ways that we are.
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  But actually, no, that's that's not what he wants from us.
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  It's really shaping our character, isn't it?
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  All these proverbs just look helping us be having a character
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  that is more after God. Yeah, that's beautiful.
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  Well, Lord, may this wisdom continue to shape our character,
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  and may our character be one that is wise.
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  Not wise as in wisdom of the world, but wise that knows our
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  place in you and in your Kingdom as a loved and forgiving child
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  of a gracious and loving God who calls us to be in that same way,
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  gracious, loving and upright. So, Lord, continue your work of
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  transformation in US and thank you for these beautiful gifts,
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  these proverbs that we can read. We thank you and we praise you
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  and we pray all of this in the name of Jesus, Amen.
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  Amen.