I'm reading in Proverbs. I'm aiming for one a day. I made it all the way through 8 in a row before I missed one. Then I missed several. Then I decided to go back and start over and really actually dig into the Proverb I was reading. At first it had mostly been to fill a "read your Bible daily" requirement, but the it became enrapturing, the idea of wisdom, calling out to wisdom, seeking instruction. My heart filled with a desire to not just for instruction, but to seek instruction. Proverbs 2 tells us to be attentive to wisdom, and incline our hearts toward understanding.
I want to do that. I want to be attentive to wisdom. So often the issue is NOT that we don't have wisdom, or that we are incapable of making the wise choice, we just ignore it. We are inattentive. I don't want to be inattentive any more. I want to incline my heart toward understanding, to know the Lord, and the Lord's wisdom, to be a bearer of light and truth and be so under God's instruction.
I think that I always thought Proverbs was sort of the fortune cookie book of the Bible. "A wise man hears the sheep, but a foolish man smells them" and things like that. Quirky sayings meant to make you think but not too hard. Catch phrase hermeneutics. But Proverbs is inspiring me to examine my life and my day to day choices and look for wisdom and insert that wisdom into my day to day choices. I'm excited to continue on in Proverbs.
Hopefully I will have more to say.
