Friday!

Proverbs!

The one who digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever rolls a stone - it will come back on him.

Proverbs 26:27 CSB

The author of these proverbs would've loved those 'fail' videos, or those Roadrunner cartoons where the coyote sets up the roadrunner and it all backfires. 

As we sit with this proverb a little, there's only one person in it. A person who is setting out to trip up or harm another. And during, or as a result, will actually harm themselves.

When I set out to harm someone else, it's going to harm me. 

Sobering. 

Because sometimes we have to take up a cause, fight for justice for ourselves or someone else, and it's so easy for harm to another to creep into or be part of our motivation.

And now we're at the heart. 

My heart. 

My heart who's motives are not always great, and sometimes needs this challenge, who's motives are sometimes mixed and a bit shady. 

I'm kidding myself if I think my motives are always completely good and right, so this image of the trap or the rock (or the dynamite!) helps me to keep assessing, to keep allowing the Spirit to nudge, to sift, to gently shift things, to allow others in to check my heart, to keep me from harming me. 

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