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Friday! Proverbs!
All a person's ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord.
Proverbs 16:2 NIV
I usually think that I do things from a good heart, with good motives...but then something snags in my heart... maybe I'm grumpy, snappy, angry, hurtful...curl into a ball...disappear...hide...
And why?
My motive at the heart level is selfish.
Something isn't working for me how I think it should.
My grades
My salary
My life
I can't be happy for someone else getting, going, having...'cos I'm not getting, going, having...
Am I really prepared to let the Lord, Yahweh, weigh my motives, put them on his scale, have a good look...a prod...
When my motives are on Yahweh's scale, well, I just come up light...
That was a bit sobering & I wasn't quite expecting that out of this proverb, but here we are, just being real.
Maybe tho there's more to this story tomorrow...
#ouch
#proverbs
#somethingtochewon

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