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Friday!
Proverbs!
Listen to the words of the wise; apply your heart to my instruction. For it is good to keep these sayings in your heart and always ready on your lips.
Proverbs 22:17-18 NLT
OK so all the rules are broken today and there's 2 verses here...but they make sense together :)
Keep wisdom in your heart.
Have it ready to speak.
That can only mean one thing: we need to memorise wisdom.
Hold wisdom by holding it in our memories.
There's other places too... screensavers on phones or computers.
What is the art on your walls? Does it hold wisdom, truth, goodness?
This proverb gently encourages us to do everything we can to get wisdom in so that we live it out.
Jesus summed it up in Matthew 22:37-40 
Love God
Love people
Holding that passage in memory makes it available whenever I need it 
Let your gentleness be evident to all. Phil 4:5. This wisdom I regularly need.
Maybe it's this one:
Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.
Ephesians 1:4
That reminder that we are seen, known, and loved.
The word translated "good" here is "na"iym" which means:
delightful
lovely
beautiful
It's really good for us :)
The other side of having God's word, his wisdom on our lips is that it's there for others.
Some days people just need us, and sometimes wisdom is helpful. 
#proverbs
#wisdom
#somethingtochewon

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