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Proverbs!
When the godly succeed, everyone is glad.
When the wicked take charge, 
people go into hiding.
Proverbs 28:12 NLT
Another proverb about power right?
When the godly have power, people are OK to come out of hiding. 
When the godly have power everyone benefits. 
In the places where I have power I wonder whether people go into hiding, hold back, wonder whether it's safe for them, or is it a place of thriving for everyone?
In the places where I have power is everyone glad?
When I look at my life, it seems that both have been true. Perhaps the question is what direction am I heading in?
Towards that person who people go into hiding from?
Or towards that part of me that is more selfless, more interested in justice, more interested in seeing the hungry fed, the sick looked after, the prisoner visited, the widow, the orphan, the marginalised cared for. 
The Bible talks a lot about justice, and this proverb quietly asks us where we stand...
#proverbs
#wisdom
#somethingtochewon 
#itsaheartthing

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