Proverbs 16

VS 1 Preparations of the heart belong to man but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.... So many times we come up with what we want and what we desire & we prepare our heart for that but then whether or not these things come to fruition is from the Lord... I want to put this along side VS 3 Commit your ways to the Lord and your thoughts will be established... are we truly seeking to do God's will? If we are seeking His will than our heart will coincide with His plans for us. We will find that we are not disappointed because we are seeking His will and our thoughts have been established in His will.

VS 18 & 19 Pride GOES before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall, better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud..... How many times have I argued with my husband and just KNOWN that I was right. The argument digresses to ugliness and I refuse to let go because my pride has taken hold. Eventually Keith will admit that I am right but there is no satisfaction in it, it was all too ugly. The spoils of the victory are not what I expected. I would have been better off to just humbly step away and agree with him. The division caused by the argument is not worth the victory.

Vs 24 Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.... I like how the word "bones" is used here, we are not talking surface level sweetness and health - this is DEEP healing. Often times when I see the word pleasant I thin of small talk and shallow interaction but here we see that it means so much more than that!

VS 25 There is a way that seems right to a man but its end is the way of death... God has given us His word for a reason, the way we are to go is clearly defined there and if we do not know His word, live in his word than we may think that doing certain things are fine. I have to immerse myself in God's word and then I will ALWAYS know the right way to go!