Friday!

Proverbs!

When the wicked arise, men hide themselves; But when they perish, the righteous increase.

Proverbs 28:28 NKJV

When those who would hold and grasp power for themselves, those who seek to grow their own kingdom are in charge, others shrink, get smaller.

I just wonder when I've been that person, when I've got what I want at the expense of someone else?

When I've only considered my thriving?

And maybe there's times when you've made yourself small because someone had power that they were using for their own gain?

Or only come "back to life" when someone else's power diminished?

We can see this proverb worked out in countries, communities, families, and personally.

We can see it in institutions and systems, and in culture.

And maybe we can even see it inside us, what thoughts we give power to, and what parts of us shrink as a result. 

That's why the truth that you are Beloved, 

that the One who loves you will never let you go, that one day every tear will be wiped away, 

that shalom will be restored in us, 

in our world, 

and between us.

And the hiding will be at an end. 

#proverbs 

#wisdom

#somethingtochewon 

#truth 

#youareBeloved