Friday!

Proverbs!

Proverbs 6:1-5 NLT

[1] My child, if you have put up security for a friend's debt or agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger - if you have trapped yourself by your agreement and are caught by what you said - follow my advice and save yourself, for you have placed yourself at your friend's mercy. 

Now swallow your pride; go and beg to have your name erased.

Don't put it off; 

do it now! 

Don't rest until you do. Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a net.

Proverbs 6:1-5 NLT

If only Herod had been able to follow the advice of this Proverb!

We've got it wrong, made a mistake, don't put it off...don't let pride get in the way...step towards the problem and own it.

I wonder how many times in my life things would have been so much better if I had followed this Proverb...my pride, my fear of looking like I've made a mistake, got it wrong, what others will think of me, embarrassment...it's so easy for those things to be the loudest voice in my head. 

How loud a thought is, is not a measure of it's worth or it's truth.

Where do we need to take our thoughts captive today?

Where do we need to sidestep pride?

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