Friday!

Proverbs!

What are worthless and wicked people like? 

They are constant liars, signaling their deceit with a wink of the eye, a nudge of the foot, or the wiggle of fingers. 

Their perverted hearts plot evil, and they constantly stir up trouble.

But they will be destroyed suddenly, broken in an instant beyond all hope of healing.

Proverbs 6:12-15 NLT

This is an uncomfortable part of Proverbs to sit with. It paints a bleak picture of a group of people. 

Them.

And at the same time those traits can be found in me...and at this time of year as we peel back the layers of tinsel, we find beneath all that the birth of a Saviour who not only saves us from destruction, saves us from separation from God, but saves us from those parts of ourselves that harm us and those around us.

Jesus came to show The Way of peace with God, and peace with ourselves. 

This bleak picture in proverbs is not the whole picture, and it's not the end of the story...there is a way out, a way forward, and the Way is a person.

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