Friday!

Proverbs!

[23] More than anything you guard, 

protect your mind, 

for life flows from it.

...

[27] Don't deviate a bit to the right or the left;

turn your feet away from evil.

Proverbs 4:23, 27 CEB

This is the 4th instruction on guarding and protecting our "leb", our mind, our will, our heart, the core of who we are.

v24 is about our choice of words

v25 is about what we look at, what we let in through our eyes

v26 is about the places we choose to go

And now v27 is about choice, and about direction.

We get to choose. 

Yes there's times when we may have been powerless, but you do have power to choose.

Those first steps in an unhealthy direction may seem small, harmless, it's where my friends are, my people, it feels good, attractive, easy... Jesus said something about the narrow road being the one that leads to Life. The road that may seem more difficult where we have to watch our step. The road where we might have to work a bit harder to find our people, and they might be found in unusual packages, but they can be found.

Is there something this Proverb is inviting us to turn away from?

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