Friday! Proverbs!
The words of a man's mouth are deep waters;
the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
Proverbs 18:4 ESV
Deep waters vs bubbling brook?
The word for deep here carries the meaning mysterious. Seems the writer is looking to the heart beneath the words.
Is it a warning that the heart and the words we say are not always aligned?
Or that in all of us there are motives and thoughts that are not always that good and life giving?
This word "bubbling" is like bubbling up, like a spring.
There's a freshwater spring near Takaka where thousand of litres an hour of the purest water bubble up out of the ground...a wellspring that does not stop, that gives life.
This Proverb points us to where we need to look for Life.
The wellspring of wisdom that is God's Word, that was lived out in our world in the person of Jesus...this is where Life is found, bubbling up in a never ending torrent of grace and love, we just have to choose to drink deeply...
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Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see - such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. Colossians 1:15-16 NLT OK so this is an English translation of a letter Paul wrote to a church 2,000 years ago, but does it feel like Paul is wrestling with words and ideas to try and capture all of who Jesus is, of who God is, of how does it work that the walking around Jesus was also there before the beginning of the beginning of everything we can see and touch and know. Not only that but Jesus was somehow the agent of everything that has been made in the physical, social, and spiritual. Jesus is at the centre of it all. Walking around Jesus. Cooking fish for breakfast Jesus. Heart aching as he looks at p
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