Friday!

Proverbs!

At three things the earth trembles, at four it can't bear up:

at a servant when he becomes king 

and fools when they are full of food;

at a detested woman when she gets married

and a female servant when she replaces her mistress.  

Proverbs 30:21-23 CEB

There are some strange things in this chapter of Proverbs...and there seems no real connection between these things...although...the first and the fourth are similar, bookends of something.

I wonder if this is to get us thinking about what we take as normal (those with power over others, kings and servants) get tipped up, that the world as we know it, the way things are, gets shaken.

Is the writer suggesting that the "way things are" is not how they are meant to be?

Do I just accept injustice in my world because that's just how things are?

Is there a pointer forward to Jesus who did tip things upside down, who's kingdom isn't about the norms and power structures that have developed in our world, but came as a servant, to serve, to give.

The upside down Kingdom is being restored and one day all will be made new.

#proverbs

#wisdom

#somethingtochewon 

#itsaheartthing 

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