verseoftheday

Friday! Proverbs! A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones. Proverbs 12:4 NIV Noble. Not a word we use a lot - righteous, virtuous, good, honourable, upright, uncorrupted...who is that good? Who's character is that pure? Maybe this proverb is hinting at something deeper then... we, the church, are described as His bride, & if we're not righteous it's like cancer in God's bones... and the only way we become righteous is thru Jesus, by faith, by our choice. So those who choose to believe are God's crown, it's our faith, our heart that God wants the most... that we choose Him... #wasntexpectingthat #proverbs #wisdom #somethingtochewon #choose #loveGod

Hebrews 6:12 NIV ...imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. Through. Faith and patience.  But I want answers and action! I want it now. God answer me, bring healing, change,  revenge (!)... Through. Faith and Patience. I'd never seen those two things together before...keep the faith, reinforce God's truth in your life, and be prepared to wait... and "Imitate those..." those who have been before us, learn from the experience of others, ask, read,  search... #through #wasn'texpectingthat #keepthefaith #bazinga

Ephesians 5:1-2 NLT Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do...Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us... This loving people thing sometimes is hard. It's not always fun It might even change the course of my life.  Am I prepared to do that? Give something up? For God? For others? The first Lutheran missionaries to PNG shipped their belongings out in coffins, because they knew they were not going home. It's love that took Jesus to the cross for me. And I am supposed to imitate Him But the success of the world pressures me to look act think live different to that. What would it look like if we all loved like Jesus? #wasn'texpectingthat #loveGodlovepeople