Friday!

Proverbs!

Happy is the one who is always reverent, 

but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

Proverbs 28:14 CSB

There's 2 people in this proverb, one who is "reverent" which is "pachad" to be in awe or to dread. This person is described as happy or blessed. 

Seems kind of strange!

The second person gives us the clue...the one who "hardens his heart". The first person has a soft heart, an unselfish heart, a heart open to God, to being reverent to Him, and it flows that when our heart is open to God, it's open to His world, to people, and to what needs tending within us too. 

We're going to feel things. 

Emotions.

Including reverance, awe, and even dread. 

This proverb is subtly giving us permission to experience all our emotions, not to suppress some that are deemed less acceptable, because that's a kind of hardening of the heart, making it into something it was not meant to be. 

(At church on Sunday we were asked from the front how we were with the expectation that we'd all be happy or excited or something to be in church. A subtle signal of what are acceptable emotions and what's not. It's actually OK to come to church tired, afraid, sad, angry...)

This proverb says it is toughening our heart that leads to trouble for us, so allow your heart to feel.

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