Friday... Let's impressed Him.

Friday... Let's impress Him.

Proverbs 24:11-14 (MSG) says, "Rescue the perishing; don't hesitate to step in and help. If you say, 'Hey, that's none of my business,' will that get you off the hook? Someone is watching you closely, you know - Someone not impressed with weak excuses."

So that is not the way to impress Him, is it? But stepping in and helping someone in crisis will impress Him. So how do you rescue people in an epidemic? What weak excuses are we using? Think, really think about that.

Look at verses 1-2, "Don't envy bad people; don't even want to be around them. All they think about is disturbance; all they talk about is making trouble." That doesn't impress Him.

Verses 5-6 says, "It's better to be wise than strong; intelligence outranks muscle any day. Strategic planning is the key to warfare; to win, you need good counsel." Who are we listening to?

Verse 10, "If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn't much to you in the first place."

And then Psalm 84:5-7 (NLT), "What joy for those whose strength comes from the Lord, who have set their minds on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. When they walk through the Valley of Weeping it will become a place of refreshing springs. The autumn rains will clothe it with blessings. They will continue to grow stronger, and each of them will appear before God in Jerusalem."

And then verse 11, "For the Lord God is our sun and shield. He gives us grace and glory. The Lord will withhold no good thing from those who do what is right." Now that is what He wants and what He rewards. Doing what is right impresses Him. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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