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Friday!
Proverbs!
Wisdom shouts in the streets. She cries out in the public square.
She calls to the crowds along the main street, to those gathered in front of the city gate:
"How long, 
you simpletons, 
will you insist on being simpleminded? 
How long will you mockers relish your mocking? 
How long will you fools hate knowledge?
Come and listen to my counsel. I'll share my heart with you and make you wise.
I called you so often, but you wouldn't come. 
I reached out to you, but you paid no attention."
Proverbs 1:20-24 NLT
The writer creates this picture of Wisdom being a person who has tried everything to get our attention.
Everything.
And now we have this caricature of a desperate person crying out in public, able to be ignored as fringe or talking nonsense.
Yet Wisdom has tried everything to get our attention, to pull us away from staying in our simple-minded pursuits. 
Our distractions.
What would Wisdom be crying out to you and me today?
What would wisdom be pleading to take our attention from?
Wisdom is invitational.
Inviting us to something better.
Wisdom is relational. Inviting us to know and share at the heart level.
What's taking my attention?
#proverbs
#wisdom
#somethingtochewon 
#itsaheartthing 

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