Friday!

Proverbs!

Wounds from a sincere friend are better than many kisses from an enemy.

Proverbs 27:6 NLT

The problem is I like the accolades. 

And I don't like the wounds. 

The problem with the "kisses", the good words, the rewards, the talking up, is that if they're from an "enemy" the heart behind them is not actually for you, it's probably for themselves. They're saying good things about you or to you not for your good, but for theirs. So that they can gain something. 

Ugly isn't it.

My problem is that I've done this.

So in a way, this Proverb is that friend that wounds, that speaks the truth even though it hurts. 

Proverbs aren't weapons to be used against others, but the cord that opens the curtain and lets the light in, tools that prise open the closed doors of our hearts. 

As we sit with this Proverb today, let the light in...

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