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September 5 - Proverbs 16:1-7 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Friday, it is the 5th of
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  September and bully for you make it to the end of this week.
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  Great to have your company. Thank you for inviting me in.
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  No matter what is happening in your part of the world, in your
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  day, you have decided to take a moment, whether it's part of
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  your routine or whether you are just going out on a limb trying
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  something new. Wherever you are, however you
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  come to be here, so good that you have done that.
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  And we can read the beginning of the next chapter of Proverbs.
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  That's right. We are going to read 7 Proverbs
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  today, and we are going to reflect on them and hear what it
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  is that God has to share with us through this ancient wisdom
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  delivered to us as we read together Proverbs 16 one to
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  seven. We can make our own plans, but
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  the Lord gives the right answer. People may be pure in their own
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  eyes, but the Lord examines their motives.
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  Commit your actions to the Lord, and your plans will succeed.
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  The Lord has made everything for His own purposes, even the
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  wicked. For a day of disaster the Lord
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  detests the proud. They will surely be punished.
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  Unfailing love and faithfulness make atonement for sin.
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  By fearing the Lord, people avoid evil.
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  When people's lives please the Lord, even their enemies are at
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  peace with them. And again, we can make our own
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  plans, but the Lord gives the right answer.
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  People may be pure in their own eyes, but the Lord examines
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  their motives. Commit your actions to the Lord,
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  and your plans will succeed. The Lord has made everything for
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  His own purposes, even the wicked.
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  For a day of disaster, the Lord detests the proud.
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  They will surely be punished. Unfailing love and faithfulness
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  make atonement for sin. By fearing the Lord, people
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  avoid evil. When people's lives please the
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  Lord, even their enemies are at peace with them.
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  Our Father, you are wise far beyond our ability to
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  comprehend, and when you move, you move with an eternal
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  perspective. You sit outside of time and
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  space, as well as here, right next to us, but you have the
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  ability to see from the dawn of time to the end of time in one
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  glance. In fact, you made that time.
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  And here we are, Your servants, Your handiwork.
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  And so, Lord, it's no surprise then that so much of what you do
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  just baffles us. And in verse 4, the writer of
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  the Proverbs says that you have made everything for your own
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  purposes, even the wicked for a day of disaster.
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  And for us, that just boggles our mind that you would make
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  wickedness for the day, that they would be brought down in
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  disaster. And while it makes no sense to
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  us, that's OK because we don't need to understand all that you
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  do. We just need to trust that you
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  are good and that your intentions are perfect and that
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  your plans are perfect. And in the fullness of time, you
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  will have your way. So we just surrender ourselves
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  to you, our all powerful and all knowing God, and pray that you
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  give us your peace, your acceptance, and your
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  understanding that as you move in ways that baffle us and break
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  our hearts sometimes and enrage us sometimes.
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  Or that we would continue to hold firm to our trust that you
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  indeed are God of all you. Hold all in your hands, and you
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  will bring everything to the place where you wanted to be.
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  So we relinquish to you our own resistance and what to us feels
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  like our own wisdom, and just submit ourselves to your
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  authority and your rule and your love and provision.
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  Hold us and give us that peace. In the name of Jesus we pray.
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  Amen.