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Friday!
Proverbs!
Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Proverbs 21:9 NIV
I've heard this proverb used as a weapon against women (anytime it's in a joke it's not a joke). 
This chapter of proverbs is full of serious topics & proverbs is about wisdom & inviting us to go deeper, to see Jesus in this...
1. He's telling the guy to leave. Go somewhere quiet and have a think. 
Don't escalate things.
2. My experience is that more often than not it's my fault there's tension in a relationship. 
Going somewhere quiet, having a think, examining my heart motives.
3. Jesus is often pictured as a groom seeking the best for his bride (us, all of us)
And we were and are quarrelsome and contentious. 
But Jesus came as a servant, seeking us out, and sacrificing himself for us.
Yes it might have been better to stay away, but we were and are too important, too wanted, to leave alone, so he entered in.
Stepped towards.
Listened.
Loved.
Forgave.
Absorbed it all.
Paul says that when we were God's enemy, Jesus chose to die for us. 
Jesus didn't escalate the fight, he solved it.
By giving himself for us.
That's love. 
Love that changes everything.
Love that we are called to copy.
#proverbs
#wisdom
#somethingtochewon

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