Friday!

Proverbs!

"You ignored my advice and rejected the correction I offered. 

So I will laugh when you are in trouble! 

I will mock you when disaster overtakes you - when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster engulfs you like a cyclone, and anguish and distress overwhelm you.

When they cry for help, I will not answer. 

Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me. For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the Lord. They rejected my advice and paid no attention when I corrected them.

Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way, choking on their own schemes.

For simpletons turn away from me - to death. 

Fools are destroyed by their own complacency.

But all who listen to me will live in peace, untroubled by fear of harm."

Proverbs 1:25-33 NLT

Yikes!

Pays to remember that "wisdom" is not God, not a force or a person, but in this piece of writing "wisdom" is given the characteristics of a person.

To make a point. 

That wisdom is available to us.

And if we ignore it, choose another way, there's consequences.

This is supposed to jolt us.

This is "wisdom" speaking, not our God. 

This also doesn't mean we'll never make a mistake, never get something wrong or head down a wrong path, but it does invite us back, to align ourselves again with wisdom and what we were made for

#Proverbs

#wisdom

#somethingtochewon