Friday! Proverbs!
The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.
Proverbs 14:14 ESV
At first look we're either one or the other...a "backslider in heart" or a good person, but on reflection I'm both...
The Hebrew word for backslider seems to have the meaning of to flinch, to retreat.
And I do that.
When prompted to do what's right I flinch. It might be costly.
I retreat.
I drift into ways of thinking that are not healthy or helpful...and that can bear fruit in my heart and in my actions and attitudes.
And yet there is good to be found in all of us...after all we're all made in God's image and likeness and all carry some echo of Gods goodness.
The hope in this proverb is that the more we submit to Jesus lordship in our lives, we get the fruit of that in our hearts...fruit is a good thing...it speaks of energy, of nutrition...of life!
And as we all still have some "backslider" in us, this Proverb reminds us we all need Grace.
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