I have been a follower of Christ since December of 1974. I am in the habit of spending my first minutes of the day with God and my Bible. Sometimes that time becomes just a habit and I don’t really get in touch with God. That usually happens when instead of following what I think God would have me do I work on what I need to teach in Sunday school – that kind of takes the joy out of it. It points to my tendency to make productivity my god. I’ll cover that another day. TODAY I’m going to share what God has been teaching me this week since I gave my Sunday school class the assignment to teach the class themselves for the next 3 weeks. They are to share what God teaches them as they read through the Proverbs. Our assignment this week was Proverbs 10-16.
Being the overachiever that I am I had a ball with this assignment BUT I’m hoping that I won’t need to share what I learned because so many of them will be sharing. We had 28 last Sunday so if only a few of them share I shouldn’t need to talk. But I’m excited about what I learned so I thought I’d share it here.
Proverbs is a cut and dry “do this don’t do that” book. It lists positive things to do and negative things to avoid. When I first became serious about following God it was a favorite because I like knowing what God likes. I had learned the hard way that “my arms are too short to box with God.” Life is much more pleasant for me when I’m pleasing Him.
It didn’t take me long to see an applicable proverb for me. Proverbs 10:19 says
“When words are many sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise.” NIV
“The more talk, the less truth; the wise measure their words.” The Message
Enough said!
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