Friday!

Proverbs!

Whoever walks in integrity will be delivered, 

but he who is crooked in his ways will suddenly fall.

Proverbs 28:18 ESV

This proverb gives no guidance about what what being delivered means, or what a sudden fall means, so let's stick to our premise about Proverbs:

5 a heart thing.

The word translated integrity here is "tamim", which means complete, sound, and  often means blameless, so when I walk with integrity, live out my values, there is something good in doing that, some kind of deliverance, some kind of being saved. We know when we're living in line with our values, there's a peace that comes with that. An internal sense that even if this world is not OK, I'm OK in it.

But when we don't live in line with our values, with what's most important, when we're trying to live to others expectations, live up to the world's measures of success, sacrifice our values for something or someone else, we trip up. It doesn't work.

It's a heart thing. 

Perhaps this strange proverb is inviting us to consider just what is most important, and to live a little more consistently in line with those things...

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