Friday!

Proverbs!

Don't agree to guarantee another person's debt or put up security for someone else. 

If you can't pay it, even your bed will be snatched from under you.

Proverbs 22:26-27 NLT

This proverb is all about thinking carefully before you agree to be part of a financial deal involving someone else. You might actually have to pay up, and are you prepared for that?

The likelihood of having to pay seems small, so we kind of write off the potential consequences quickly and jump in. 

It's just practical wisdom.

And I wonder if it has a wider application in our lives. Maybe it's alcohol, drugs, the things we consume on the internet, food...I can convince myself easily that there won't be any consequences, any price to pay for me. 

Or at a deeper spiritual level...I don't need Christian community, I can get by without opening my Bible...the consequences seem so small or unlikely or far away in the future...

This proverb encourages me to think that there are consequences to my choices. The writer uses losing his bed, one of the last things you'd want to lose, being without somewhere to sleep is a vulnerable place to be. 

That negative consequence could happen, so be careful with your choices. 

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