Hi,
Some days bring sunshine of emotions. Some days rain. Today, I escaped to shelter. I didn't know there was an onslaught.
While reading, I went and saw, the proverb of the day, for today. I am healed now. I am rested. What I should do, and what God thinks was in there.
Yes, it is Tishri's work. The first time I read Proverbs after time off, I actually did not understand much. I read it the entire month, as per her wishes.
Yes, I was surprised and delighted too, the second time, I Read Proverbs all through.
No, I did not read Proverbs each day the third time, till Bateman de Patrick inspired me and you. I couldn't wait though, just like the first time, and am reading them now.
Yes, I know little again. Yes, I need Proverbs again. It tells me what to do. I will be glad over no enemy of me or God that fails. It seems God hates that. How in the moment can I forget that? Or the heaping of coals, like drJean said?
It is not said, I think, but should not Proverbs be etched on my soul? It is not. I have to read to learn. I have to read three times, over three months to start to get wisdom. At least it feels that way.
Should not Proverbs like the law, be in and on my heart? I wonder if it is, and I just refuse.
And lastly, maybe, should not Proverbs be in and on my mind, like the Law of God is? I too wonder about that.
It seems like Proverbs, with the requirement of fearing God, and that of proving one's honesty with and before God, is not in my mind or heart......until I read. It may also not be on my mind or in my heart, until I read.
No, for me, wisdom, the characteristic, comes from she, the tester of me, the friend of Solomon it seems, and she does reward after she is sure. She rewards with knowledge of God, and with the way to do things.
So, no. The law is I am told on my heart, and in my heart. The law I am told is on my mind and in my mind. I am told it is there. 'wisdom' comes from reading and fearing The Lord. Fearing the Lord produces honesty, for He knows what our hearts think. It is then that Wisdom, to me God's Gal Pal from Proverbs 8, she rewards those who she is sure of.
Is that heresy? Maybe. I know the theories of the personification of wisdom of Jesus. It does not seem to me, that she, as said in Proverbs 9:1 fits Jesus but her. And when she plays and delights in all that God does, in Proverbs 8, that is ever so like, a gal pal of God.
And why should God not make a woman, a spirit woman, as the first thing in all of Creation? If He did, as it seems to say, then Proverbs tells us of Creation, in a way. It is relational. It is about love. It is maybe about God loving and wanting to see, who if anyone, would love Him back?
Maybe, just maybe, God needs to be loved.
LOVE,