This past
Sunday was the first day of the New Year, and I challenged our church to join
me to read the Bible every day. To have
God’s Word as part of your life may change you and those around you.
Proverbs is the book that I point people to the most
as I did on Sunday. It has 31 chapters
as there are 31 days in a month. Take a
chapter per day and let God speak in to your life. The wisdom you read and think through might
change that day or even your life.
That is why I share with you parts of Proverbs 3 from
yesterday’s reading with the hope that this will challenge you to read the Word
daily.
1-6
My son, do
not forget my teaching, but
let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and
years of life and peace they will add
to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them
around your neck; write them on the
tablet of your heart.
So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.
7
Be not
wise in your own eyes; fear
the Lord, and turn away from evil.
9-10
Honor the Lord with your
wealth and
with the
firstfruits of all your produce; then
your barns
will be filled with plenty, and your vats will
be bursting with wine.
13-14
Blessed is
the one who finds wisdom, and
the one who gets understanding, for the
gain from her is better than gain from silver and
her profit better than gold.
23-26
27-28
Do not
withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor,
“Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give
it”—when you have it with you.
35
The wise
will inherit honor, but
fools get disgrace.
I do pray that one of these verses or something I
share with spark your desire to have the Bible as part of your every day
life. It is a new year with lots of
great days ahead. Let God fill your
days.
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