Month: November 2014

“Listen to good advice if you want to live well, an honored guest among wise men and women. An undisciplined, self-willed life is puny.”

Proverbs 15:31-32 MSG – A verse of the day from the Bible presented in Eugene Peterson’s contemporary version called The Message. Accompanied by a personal reflection below.

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Good advice is an honored guest, only sometimes we have trouble recognizing the guest, and think it to be a stranger or intruder.  May it be that we find the discernment to recognize one from another.  Interesting choice of word to describe an “undisciplined and self-willed” life: puny.  It is the smallest of the small – a trivial, almost unseen thing. 

“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.”