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Proverbs!

The woman named Folly is brash. 
She is ignorant and doesn't know it.
Proverbs 9:13 NLT

So easy to weaponise Proverbs as we see these attributes in others. 
But if Proverbs is more of a mirror, then it makes me wonder when I am ignorant and don't know it, where my opinions equal truth for everyone, when I have no idea about how someone else has had to manage things in their life and yet I judge them by my experience...so many places where I am ignorant and can't see it...easily anyway...
When we hold up Proverbs as a mirror, the Bible as a way into our hearts to see where we may be ignorant, perhaps that's the beginning of wisdom that Proverbs bangs on about.
Perhaps starting with Loving God, and loving others. 
And it's not using Proverbs to beat ourselves up with either, but a gentle inquiry into the workings of my heart...
"Jesus, may the Holy Spirit prompt me today where I might be the one who is brash, where I am ignorant and not know it, shine your light in those spaces and give me your wisdom today.
Amen."
#proverbs
#wisdom
#somethingtochewon #itsaheartthing 

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