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Friday! Proverbs!
The wealth of the rich
is their fortified city;
they imagine it a wall too high to scale.
Proverbs 18:11 NIV
It's easy to look at the wealthy (as I'm pretty sure Bill Gates is not reading this) 'cos there's always someone you look at as being "the wealthy". Right?
It's the person with the more or the bigger farm/ house/ business/ _________
"They" are putting their hope in their stuff.
And I wouldn't do that.
Would I?
No.
No.
Maybe
Just a bit.
A fortified city is our place of refuge.
Why do I need a place of refuge?
What am I running from that I'm afraid of?
Maybe my reasons are different than yours, but it's the place we go to feel safe.
To feel accepted.
To know we are loved
The person in this proverb is putting their faith in something.
Something that cannot bear the weight of what they need.
Our faith, our place of refuge, where we run, the only place that can bear that weight, is a person
#jesusatthecentre
#run
#refuge
#fortifiedcity
#proverbs
#somethingtochewon

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