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Friday! Proverbs! All who are prudent act with knowledge, but fools expose their folly. Proverbs 13:16 NIV The close minded, those who refuse to learn, those who think they're right, don't ask for advice...they get shown up for the fools that they are. Them. Oh...and me. I'm that person too. Never before have we had access to so much information...it's literally at our fingertips...yet I still think I'm right It's knowledge of God that leads to wisdom that changes us...and the way we see the world - and other people - ironically that may make others take us as fools... but it's the Audience of One that counts in the end... #proverbs #wisdom #somethingtochewon

Joseph replied..."Dont you see, you planned evil against me but God used those same plans for my good, as you see all around you right now - life for many people..." Genesis 50:19-20 MSG The view from the drone. The different perspective. "God has been at work in my life despite, in fact within the hatred that you had towards me. Even though I couldn't always see it, I kept trusting Him, even when He was silent, when all hope seemed lost... God was at work... Can you see that now?" #faith #faithinthedark

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33 NIV Seeing places from a drone is now the thing right? We get to see places and events from a new perspective. Just like the view from a drone, Jesus gives us a change of perspective. Yes there's uncertainty, loss...hurt... but there's another view! I've accomplished something for you that can't be undone, that changes everything. You belong You're secure You're dearly loved And while you might only be getting glimpses of what that means now, one day it's all going to become clear...all made new. Have a look again at today in light of what I've done! #wordsofJesus #onedayallwillbemadenew

Peter said, "Explain the parable to us."  "Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them. "Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of a persons mouth come from the heart, and these defile them... Matthew 15:15-20 NIV Not Peters finest moment... but at least I'm not alone in "not getting it"...sometimes we miss Jesus point, but, here he goes on to make it crystal clear... Food is just food. The rules around food were to point you towards God. To orient your heart towards him. It's not the rules, not keeping the rules, but the heart... always our heart. Lord may today my heart be oriented towards you, and then the things I do and say will reflect that. Amen. #itsaheartthing

"But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15 NIV From Adam & Eve, to Joshua's day...to this day...  we get to choose. God doesn't force any of us to choose Him, to worship Him. Interesting that in Joshua's final speech not serving is not an option. In his world everyone serves somebody. You get to serve a god of your own making, a god of someone else's... or you choose the living God. #gottaservesomebody #choose #loveGod

"Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord..." Joshua 24:14 NIV Josh is at the end of his life and he has a final charge...a final few things he wants to say... Put God first. Make his values yours Make the things that are important to Him, important to you All this other noise that people say is important, worth striving for, worth following or achieving or attaining - don't let it become THE thing in your life. For decades the people had seen God at work making a way for them & Josh was concerned they'd forget... we saw that Jesus went beyond that and became the way for us - and we share communion so we don't forget the price he paid... #sunday #worship #thisisourGod #loveGod

...So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities you did not build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant. Joshua 24:13 NIV At the end of Joshua's life, he knew he was going to die & he has an epic summary of all that's happened and a final message from God...and this is the end of God's message to his people... and it jolts us forward to Jesus - who knew he was going to die - who said "I'm going to prepare a place for you..." A land Cities Fruitful & bountiful A place where all will be made new... when the brokenness is restored, damage is undone... a place we did not toil for or plant or build because it's a gift of grace built by God's love for us and paid for by Jesus blood. #onedayallwillbemadenew #heaven #itsagift