6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! 7 It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, 8 yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. 9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— 11 and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man. Though the world is not as…
Year: 2017
A Word or Two from the Word - Proverbs 6:1-5
1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger, 2 you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth. 3 So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go—to the point of exhaustion—and give your neighbor no rest! 4 Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids. 5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like…
A Word or Two from the Word - Proverbs 5:21
21 For your ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all your paths. What comes up for you when you read these words? Is this a scary thought or a comforting thought? Does it make you angry or make you feel loved? Before God, I cannot hide. I can’t put on my mask and pretend I’m someone other than I am. I can’t talk my way out of things. I can’t buy my way out of things. Before God I am who I am. That’s a…
A Word or Two from the Word - Romans 10:9-10
9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. Have you ever wondered why Christians were martyred in the Roman Empire? The Romans were a polytheistic nation. They had many gods so what difference would one more make? Christians in the first and second century were…
A Word or Two from the Word - Proverbs 5:15-20
15 Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well. 16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? 17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers. 18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. 19 A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love. 20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace…