Proverbs
\n16<\/p>\n
Verse 16:2 has always been a tough one for me:<\/p>\n
Even when you think you have good
\nintentions,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He knows your real motives.<\/p>\n
What drives us deep down? Is it really to honor God or get
\nsomething in the end? I know often my inner drive is more based on \u201cwhat\u2019s in
\nit for me\u201d more than honoring God. It drives me up the wall since God does know
\nmy inner thoughts. I started the blog assuming God would bless it with some
\nagent reading it and signing a book deal. Over a thousand posts later and we
\nmay get 1 or 2 visitors a week, but now doing it to expand my knowledge and
\npray it helps another find Jesus.<\/p>\n
Verse 16:8 shows us the power of want:<\/p>\n
Better to have little and stand for
\nwhat is right
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0than to become rich by doing what is wrong.<\/p>\n
Jesus was not anti-wealth, but rather anti-separation from
\nGod. Money tends to get us busy and redirected to places away from God. This is
\nsaying avoid the distractions and be happy in what you have.<\/p>\n
Verse 16:18 has been paraphrased into almost a clich\u00e9:<\/p>\n
\nPride precedes destruction;
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0an arrogant spirit gives way to a\u00a0nasty<\/i>\u00a0fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cPride comes before a fall\u201d is this verse boiled down. I
\npersonally have experienced pride in racing before I literally fell. I was \u201chot
\npoo-poo\u201d then I crashed and suffered injuries, everything from concussions to
\nruptured disc in the back. All were preceded by me thinking I was some great
\nrider.<\/p>\n
Verse 16:32 addresses our drive:<\/p>\n
It is better to be a patient man
\nthan a\u00a0mighty<\/i>\u00a0warrior,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0better to be someone who controls his temper than
\nsomeone who conquers a city.<\/p>\n
Asking someone to be patient today is a whole new ball game.
\nNo longer do we have to prepare food, but rather drive through gives it to us
\nnow. No longer do we need to go to the library to research a project, but we
\ncan answer deep questions at the kid\u2019s ball game with our iPhone. No longer do
\nwe need to go to a \u201cspecial store\u201d to purchase porn, now we can watch it at our
\nkid\u2019s ball game. \u00a0Patience is a lost
\nvirtue.<\/p>\n
I think the second line is more important since most
\nimpatient people tend to have an inability to control their temper. That causes
\nmore damage than anything!! A short outburst can destroy years of trust or
\nrespect. This cuts deep with me since my closest friends have been decimated by
\nmy sharp temper, Mike Lanning was the first. I blew up just playing around and
\nstuck him with a heavy gage wire \u201cwhip\u201d leaving a long lasting welt and a
\npermanently damaged relationship. This is really the key to patience, not doing
\nsomething stupid.<\/p>\n
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Proverbs 16 Verse 16:2 has always been a tough one for me: Even when you think you have good intentions, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He knows your real motives. What drives us deep down? Is it really to honor God or get something in the end? I know often my inner drive is more based on \u201cwhat\u2019s in it … Continue reading “What’s Inside Defines Your Relationship With God”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}