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Proverbs 13:21 NIV Good things... There's nothing wrong with good things. But. When we love God to get good things...well then we're loving God for ourselves...for what we can get We can't love God for the stuff. Job 1v11 shows that Satan thinks that Job only loves God because of the stuff he's got. Take it away and he won't love you. It can't be for the good things of this world that we love God. We need to love God because of who He is. Whether we gain or lose, in this life, the ultimate good thing, is not found in work, health, long life, money, spouse, property, qualifications, beauty...even children... It's found in Him. And the work He does in our hearts And it finds its expression in worship, in serving, in giving...and in everyday acts of grace... #goodthings #somethingtochewon

Friday! Proverbs! Trouble pursues the sinner, but the righteous are rewarded with good things.    Proverbs 13:21 NIV Yes that's so true...your sins will find you out, if you keep doing the wrong stuff, you'll get in trouble... and the good, well things always work out for them right? Sometimes. And sometimes the person who cheats, takes a short cut, rips us or someone else off is the one who prospers. And its the good people, those who do the right thing, they're the ones who get sick, who can't get a job, whose business fails... So if the good, the righteous, don't "win", then what is this about? Is it just a taster for when Jesus returns and all will be made new? Or is it that the "reward" is really a heart thing? And "trouble" is a heart thing? It's a troubled heart that pursues the sinner...that there's more to this life and one day a reckoning with the Creator... And the righteous, those who are made right with G...