Friday!

Proverbs!

The Lord's eyes keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the treacherous.

Proverbs 22:12 CSB

Some days I wish He would just get on with it and do some overthrowing. 

Come down and flip some tables.

Take away the power of the oppressors.

Come and deal to them.

To that person.

And the world would be a better place.

And then there's the realisation that I have been "treacherous". I've let people down, been selfish, lied, and the seeds of all those things are in my heart.

I too would be overthrown.

So I hold to the first part of this proverb that "the Lord keeps watch".

Yahweh. 

He keeps watch over my words and the world that creates.

He's not immune to, or isolated from the evil of this world (or the evil that lurks in my heart).

He's not vaccinated against it.

He absorbs it.

He absorbs it all.

He absorbs it and sends back grace.

One day He will make all things new.

This world, the evil in it, and my heart, will somehow completely be restored without destroying it. 

As much as I think my timing for that is better, I trust Yahweh as having a better plan, a better perspective, that His eyes see in a way mine cannot.

And I, and we, can hold onto the hope that one day all tears will be wiped away, and that all will be made new.

#hope

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