Friday!

Proverbs!

The one who sends a message by a fool's hand cuts off his own feet and drinks violence. 

A proverb in the mouth of a fool is like lame legs that hang limp. 

Giving honor to a fool is like binding a stone in a sling. 

A proverb in the mouth of a fool is like a stick with thorns, brandished by the hand of a drunkard. 

The one who hires a fool or who hires those passing by is like an archer who wounds everyone indiscriminately. 

As a dog returns to its vomit, so also a fool repeats his foolishness. 

Do you see a person who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Proverbs 26:6-12 CSB

This chapter from v1-12 is all on this theme of the fool and being wise in our own eyes. 

These word pictures created it seems are there for us to see and say "not me, I'm not that person or do those things", and then the writer hits us at the end with the person who is "wise in their own eyes" and I realise that is me. 

I justify my choices, my actions, gloss over my mistakes, ignore God's wisdom (try to find the loopholes, an easier way).

If there's more hope for a fool (who has just been pictured in a very sad way) then where is my hope?

It's Grace. 

It's our God who loves me, loves you, loves us, even with all our stuff and mistakes and choices and foolishness.

Jesus who says to bring our burdens to him, that his yoke is easy, that there is forgiveness, restoration, hope, and unending Grace.

Let's rest in that today.

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