Friday!

Proverbs!

A house is built by wisdom, 

and it is established by understanding; 

by knowledge the rooms are filled with every precious and beautiful treasure.

Proverbs 24:3-4 CSB

Seems that the writer is not talking about building a house but creating a picture of us. 

But doesn't use the construction language of foundations and walls and a roof, but speaks more to intent, and what it's based on, and the spaces that have been created. 

And it's what's in those spaces that we linger, wondering what precious and beautiful treasures the rooms are being filled  with. 

This is picture of our heart as a building with rooms...but it's not a static picture.

Built

Established

Are filled

This is an ongoing process. 

Some of the rooms in our hearts were established with deceit, disregard, pain, not understanding.

Some of the rooms of our hearts don't hold treasures at all. 

This proverb holds the hope that they can.

That change is possible.

The things we bring into those rooms, treasures, transform those spaces of our hearts. 

There's times when I haven't let God in, haven't let good people in, and when I have, my heart has been richer, filling with treasure.

As you and I sit with this proverb today, will we see the precious and beautiful treasure around us, and that's already there. 

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