Proverbs 13, August 13, 2009

Again, I found a lot of this Proverb speaking to me. There is a lot of wisdom regarding the words from one’s mouth. God has strong warnings for those who lie and those who prattle on at the mouth. I think there is a lot I can learn from here. Sometimes we get ourselves into trouble because we say too much. Perhaps saying less is a good way to keep ourselves from saying too much and finding ourselves feeling the “need” to lie about some seemingly insignificant something. Iften times I think that God really only hates those BIG,FAT UGLY lies but really, any subtle stretching of the truth is offensive and a sin.

Vs 21, Evil pursues sinners. We are ALL sinners and evil is pursuing us. The warnings and sins in this chapter are for ALL of us believers. We may think that we would never lie or be lazy but the reality is that evil is coming after us, hoping to find a crack and work his way into our lives!

Vs 24 really sticks out with me right now. AS I have been mentioning, I struggle with speaking sharply to my little ones and being short on patience and I feel fairly certain that a lot of it is due to my own making. I am slow to discipline my children, sometimes because I want to give them a second chance but many times because I am too lazy to deal with whatever is happening. Apparently I am hoping that my 5, 3 & 2 year old have enough sense to stop doing something just because I told them to… Of course, I do not have that common sense so I am not sure why I expect them to have it! God is telling me to stop doing things all the time and I never listen! So here is this verse, saying I HATE MY CHILDREN? Okay, I do not… I LOVE them, with all my heart. God is calling me to get off my tooshie and discipline my children… Why do I get frustrated? Because they rarely obey the first time… but I rarely make them obey immediately and then I get mad at them??? Not very fair of me. God is really speaking to me here and I know that if I really love my children as I profess to, I will start teaching them to obey me the first time…