Day 23, Proverbs Chapter 23

[brinny]

Proverbs 23:

The Wisdom To "Hear".
AKA: Raising Beauty From Ashes.

"The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice." ~Pr 23:24-25

God is gracious, in that when He grants wisdom to those who "fear" Him, HE also changes their "heart", into a heart more like "His" own heart. Along with the "change of heart" there is discernment and a re-newed "honor" for our mothers and fathers. It is all put into perspective. We HONOR them for how God used each of them to bring us into this world, even with all of their weaknesses, foibles, and inept-ness. We are able to give them "due honor" for those things they DID tell us that were right.

When we give "due honor" to our mothers and fathers, God blesses us, and the bottom line is that we are set free from the constraints and a "forever-whining" heart that is stuck in the chains of the realms of a long-ago time lapse, where time "stands still" and of which there is no escape, and no healing, and no "wings".

God, along with His wisdom, gives us the "wings of an eagle". And we find that He did not just do so for our sakes alone, but for the sakes of our mothers and our fathers who were not able or could not ask for forgiveness. God uses us to be the "key turner" to let them out of that prison.

It is THEN that healing commences.

In the meantime, we are able to decipher those words and those things that our mothers said and did that WERE healthy and edifying, and give them their due honor for it.

This is how God raises beauty from ashes.

 

[brinny]

Proverbs 23:

"Heart" Truth.
AKA: Heart of Stone.

God pays no attention whatsoever to our "words", our "songs" or our "prayers" if they are not in sync with our hearts, or "Him". He "reads" and He "hears" what is in the deepest recesses of our hearts.

There is no need to "hide" it or attempt to "cover it up". Our "motives" are "loud and clear" to Him. It's as if it's all on a megaphone to God.

This is why we are admonished to "examine" ourselves, and to ALWAYS be "honest" and "transparent" with our God.

Hypocrisy is "sickening" to Him.

As it is written, it literally makes Him "vomit".

"Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell him your troubles, that he may comfort you, tell him your joys that he may sober them, tell him your longings, that he may purify them, tell him your dislikes that he may help you conquer them.

Talk to him of your temptations, that he may shield you from them, show him the wounds of your heart, that he may heal them, lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability.

Tell him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others. If you thus pour out your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back, neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of their heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intimacy with God." ~Francois Fen'elon

 

[brinny]

Proverbs 23:

Riches Have "Wings".

"Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven." ~Pr 23:4-5

We are not to put our "hopes" in "riches" nor are we to be enamored with and "admire" the rich nor be covetousness of their riches or anything about them.

Their riches will fly away like it has wings. They cannot take it to the grave with them, and as a matter of fact, the rich, unless they are safely covered by the blood of Jesus Christ and are therefore deemed righteous by God Himself, need our urgent prayers, for their "end" will be a tragic and hopeless eternity where there is no "turning back, and no "second chances", for that door of grace that they ignored and spurned is forever closed.

 

[SWIll]

"Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day" Prov 23:17 ESV

 

[brinny]

Proverbs 23:
(This bears repeating. Amen.)
The Wisdom To "Hear".
AKA: Raising Beauty From Ashes.

"The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice." ~Pr 23:24-25

God is gracious, in that when He grants wisdom to those who "fear" Him, HE also changes their "heart", into a heart more like "His" own heart. Along with the "change of heart" there is discernment and a re-newed "honor" for our mothers and fathers. It is all put into perspective. We HONOR them for how God used each of them to bring us into this world, even with all of their weaknesses, foibles, and inept-ness. We are able to give them "due honor" for those things they DID tell us that were right.

When we give "due honor" to our mothers and fathers, God blesses us, and the bottom line is that we are set free from the constraints and a "forever-whining" heart that is stuck in the chains of the realms of a long-ago time lapse, where time "stands still" and of which there is no escape, and no healing, and no "wings".

God, along with His wisdom, gives us the "wings of an eagle". And we find that He did not just do so for our sakes alone, but for the sakes of our mothers and our fathers who were not able or could not ask for forgiveness. God uses us to be the "key turner" to let them out of that prison.

It is THEN that healing commences.

In the meantime, we are able to decipher those words and those things that our mothers said and did that WERE healthy and edifying, and give them their due honor for it.

This is how God raises beauty from ashes.

 

[SWIll]

"Apply yourself to discipline and listen to words of knowledge" Prov 23:12 CSB

Short, sweet, and to the point........

 

[Leaf473]

1When you sit down to dine with a ruler,

consider carefully whatA is before you,

2and put a knife to your throat

if you have a bigA appetite;

3don’t desire his choice food,

for that food is deceptive.

Proverbs 23 Christian Standard Bible

 

[totallylovedbygod]

read through proverbs in january.. absolutely amazing

 

[SWIll]

"Apply yourself to discipline and listen to words of knowledge" Prov 23:12 CSB

Short, sweet, and to the point........

Still applies......

 

[SWIll]

1When you sit down to dine with a ruler,

consider carefully whatA is before you,

2and put a knife to your throat

if you have a bigA appetite;

3don’t desire his choice food,

for that food is deceptive.

Proverbs 23 Christian Standard Bible