Friday!

Proverbs!

A person who plans evil will get a reputation as a troublemaker. The schemes of a fool are sinful; everyone detests a mocker.

Proverbs 24:8-9 NLT

It's easy to fudge around the evil that people do. We sometimes have this weak grace that stops us calling the evil things we do to one another by their real names, that avoids justice, avoids accountability, avoids consequences. 

But this proverb suggests otherwise.

The community should recognise evil acts that people do towards others, that schemes of the heart will come to light, and be seen for what they are. 

And. All of these things in this proverb are mine too. 

Real Grace doesn't shy away from the sin in my heart or lessen it or justify it. Grace entered in, and absorbed it into Jesus. 

And while the schemes, the thoughts, the mocking isn't gone completely, I'm a work in progress in the now and the not yet of God's redemptive story. 

This proverb helps me to see me more clearly.

And. Held in the grip of Grace at the same time.

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