verseoftheday

The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it a wall too high to scale. Proverbs 18:11 NIV There's always someone who will look at you & me as the "rich"... Maybe it's financial, or maybe it's opportunity, or education, appearance, health, family...no matter what there's going to be someone in the world who'll look at me as the rich. Someone who'll be looking "up" at me. And in what would they see me putting my faith? What would they say my fortified city is? Where my hope is? What would they see? Gets me thinking this morning about who my faith is in...we sing a song sometimes that has a line when "all is stripped away", take me back to a heart of worship. The walls I rely on The fortified city It's found in the "King of all worth", the only one who can hold the weight of my worship... #jesusatthecentre #run #refuge #fortifiedcity #proverbs #somethingtochewon

Friday! Proverbs! The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it a wall too high to scale. Proverbs 18:11 NIV It's easy to look at the wealthy (as I'm pretty sure Bill Gates is not reading this) 'cos there's always someone you look at as being "the wealthy". Right? It's the person with the more or the bigger farm/ house/ business/ _________ "They" are putting their hope in their stuff. And I wouldn't do that. Would I? No. No. Maybe Just a bit. A fortified city is our place of refuge. Why do I need a place of refuge? What am I running from that I'm afraid of? Maybe my reasons are different than yours, but it's the place we go to feel safe. To feel accepted. To know we are loved The person in this proverb is putting their faith in something. Something that cannot bear the weight of what they need. Our faith, our place of refuge, where we run, the only place that can bear that weight, is a person #...