Proverbs challenge

hey guys and gals!

how are you?

J and I serve in the New Christians team on church and they are doing the 'proverbs challenge' - read a chapter a day from proverbs...31 chapters for ~31 days per month.

Jono from our team shared this with the group yesterday and I though it would be nice to pass on - enjoy and see you folks tonight at johnny's....100 mt pleasant road, Lewisham for a 7pm start!

Love you all

Ria
http://hithergreenconnect.blogspot.com/

2009/10/22 Jonathan Heath <jonathan.heath.za@gmail.com>

Hey gang. Thanks to Swain for explaining the challenge. I had NOOO
idea this what everyone was going on about. Lesson is: "Go to team
brief!"

I read Proverbs 22 this morning (from a very wet, cold Germany) and it
hit me wam, wam, wam - like listening to Joseph Prince speak on the
Old Testament.
3 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge,
but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
4 Humility and the fear of the Lord
bring wealth and honor and life.
5 In the paths of the wicked lie thorns and snares,
but he who guards his soul stays far from them.
...
28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone
set up by your forefathers.

These verses were particularly helpful to me and got me thinking.
Everyday, we navigate the path God has set before us - full of
opportunities and pitfalls (that's the Devil by the way). Are we
humble enough to trust God and admit that we aren't strong enough?
Wow, I wish I'd run the other way a few times.

Verse 28 sounded like a bell -- our parents and those wiser than us,
God himself, put boundaries in place to protect us -- keep us from
dealing things God never intended. Do we even know where they are any
more?

Drink deeply from His word and you'll always have a word in season for
a friend, courage in the shadow and more grace than your soul can even
contain!!

God bless,

Jono