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August 15 - Proverbs 15:15-21 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here and you have made it to the end
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  of another week. It is Friday, it's the 15th of
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  August and here we are. I wonder what we can possibly
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  do. I know.
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  Let's read together a proverb. That's right.
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  Let's open up the book of Proverbs and get some of that OG
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  wisdom for us today. What a joy that is.
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  And hopefully we can even carry something, some element of
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  truth, some element of teaching with us all the way through the
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  weekend that it can shape the way that we choose to be in an
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  interaction. And this is me, my last day in
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  Canberra before I board a flight to come home, hip hip, Hooray,
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  and be back with my family. I hope that you get to be with
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  your family today or over the weekend and that you have a
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  wonderful time. But before we get on with the
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  weekend, before we get on with our Fridays, let U.S.
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  Open up God's Word together as we read Proverbs 15, 15 to 21.
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  For the despondent, every day brings trouble.
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  For the happy heart, life is a continual feast.
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  Better to have little with fear for the Lord than to have great
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  treasure and inner turmoil. A bowl of vegetables with
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  someone you love is better than steak with someone you hate.
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  A hot tempered person starts fights.
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  A cool tempered person stops them.
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  A lazy person's way is blocked with briars, but the path of the
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  upright is an open highway. Sensible children bring joy to
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  their father. Foolish children despise their
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  mother. Foolishness brings joy to those
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  with no sense. A sensible person stays on the
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  right path. And again, for the despondent,
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  every day brings trouble. For the happy heart, life is a
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  continual feast. Better to have little with fear
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  for the Lord than to have great treasure and inner turmoil.
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  A bowl of vegetables with someone you love is better than
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  steak with someone you hate. A hot tempered person starts
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  fights. A cool tempered person stops
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  them. A lazy person's way is blocked
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  with briars, but the path of the upright is an open highway.
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  Sensible children bring joy to their father.
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  Foolish children despise their mother.
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  Foolishness brings joy to those with no sense.
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  A sensible person stays on the right path.
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  Ah Jesus, it all sounds so obvious
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  and clear as we read these. Why wouldn't they be true?
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  But as I look at the second one and it talks about people having
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  great treasure and inner turmoil.
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  If there is not a more perfect and succinct description of our
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  Western world today, I don't know what is.
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  Ah, Lord, so often we choose great inner turmoil in order to
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  gain the treasures that we want around us.
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  Success, material objects, reputation, these are the things
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  that we want, and we chase them with great anxiety and busyness
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  and inner turmoil using the language of Solomon.
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  But here you tell us, it's better to have little.
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  It's better not to have those things and have fear for you,
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  love for you, reverence for you. So, Lord, here we are standing
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  before you again asking that you reset our compass, the compass
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  of our hearts, to point to you so that when we wake each day,
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  it's you and your company that drives us, and that all the
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  other things that's mere trimming around our feast of
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  relationship with You. And if we have that closeness
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  with you, Lord, nothing else is nearly as important, because
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  it's our relationship with You that stretches into eternity
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  that draws us into your embrace to live in your holy city
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  forever with comfort and love and your presence.
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  So Jesus, scratch away all the other noise and attune our
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  hearts to you and our relationship with you.
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  Ah, because we love you and we want nothing more than closeness
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  with you above all else. And we pray this in your saving
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  name, Amen.