Friday!

Proverbs!

Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 23:12 NIV

The word here for heart is "leb", the mind, the inner person, the heart. 

This proverb is calling us to apply ourselves, our heart, mind, thinking, the core of who we are. 

This is not easy work.

When it comes to God's word it's not like an instruction manual with a set of tasks, God wants to get into our core, and meet us there. 

And mostly, that's not a place I even want to go myself, this world seems to want us to scoot along on the surface and meet its expectations, fit it's mold, not think too hard about what it's doing to our inner self.

This little proverb asks us to listen carefully, and to apply what we hear. This is going to take discernment of what or who we're listening to, what or who are we giving the most weight to, whose instruction are we applying to our hearts. 

If the answer is that God's word should be the voice we give the most weight to, then investing more time there this year makes sense. 

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