Friday!

Proverbs!

The wicked put up a bold front, 

but the upright give thought to their ways.

Proverbs 21:29 NIV

With so much communication online, with the opportunity to create a face to the world via Facebook, Instagram, we all can put on that bold front.

Something to hide behind.

I would hide behind being a joker. 

What do you hide behind?

It's actually OK not to be OK.

It's OK to be real.

It's OK not to put up a front.

It's OK to not be like everyone else.

It's OK not to hide.

The other person in this proverb gives thought to their ways. 

How much thought do I give to my ways?

Paul gives a super strong warning in Romans 12 not to be confirmed to this age, to the thinking of this world, but to think in the light of God's mercy, His grace.

If we give thought to our ways in the light of living in God's world, in the grace of Jesus redeeming work, walking in tune with the Spirit, then we can start to let the mask go. 

We can put down the bold front, be less concerned with the expectations of others, and be OK with being who God made us.

With all our dreams and hopes and messes and mistakes and victories and goodness and the stuff we carry and the wonder and beauty and the very breath in our lungs...and live Coram Deo, in the presence of God.

He doesn't want the bold front. 

Just you.

As you are.

Right now.

You are enough.

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