A Week to Go

I hope you all have been able to catch up and keep up the daily Proverbs readings. I will admit that while I was in Israel it got very tough some days to do my readings. There were one or two days that I had to double up, but it was amazing how powerful it was to read the Scriptures in the very place they were written.

Today, you all should have read Proverbs 25. What an awesome chapter!

Verse 2 says, "It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search them out."

This has actually been one of my life verses, as I have come to discover time and time again how much God has hidden within his Word, so that we might have the opportunity to discover new and fresh things about Him every time we read. As I was in Israel I realized how much is "hidden" from us as American readers because we have never seen the terrain or don't understand the Jewish culture. My prayer is constantly that I would fall more and more in love with God's Word, and I find the more I pray that the more discoveries I make and the more the Scriptures become alive to me.

My other thought for the day: what if we took the God's Word seriously? What if we believed God when he said obeying his Word will bring us life? When I read verse 21 and 22 I thought, what a powerful command to live counter-culture. Our culture tells us we should get people back when they wrong us or turn our backs on those who hurt us. God tells us that if we love and serve our enemies we participate in building a Kingdom of love and peace. What if we actually tried to do this?

Grace and peace...