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Thursday... So, what is appealing to us?


Proverbs 15:2 (NLT), "The tongue of the wise makes knowledge appealing, but the mouth of a fool belches out foolishness."

Thursday... So, what is appealing to us?

There is so much foolishness being shared around us and it is so easy for us to kept listening. It is can be appealing to us. 

Now Proverbs 15:2 (NLT) says, "The tongue of the wise makes knowledge appealing, but the mouth of a fool belches out foolishness." And this is so important for us to see.

What is it that gets our attention? There is so much out there that is really foolishness but we keep listening when we should be quick to change the channel. What is it that gets our attention?

Now the Apostle John starts chapter 4 this way. Verses 1-3 says, "Jesus knew the Pharisees had heard that he was baptizing and making more disciples than John (though Jesus himself didn't baptize them - his disciple did). So he left Judea and returned to Galilee." 

Now this caught my attention because so many of us in the church are excited about numbers. I am a retired Church Planter so I was very interested in numbers. But it seemed that Jesus was more interested in individuals. In fact it was a woman who wasn't even a Jew. And that caught my attention. Yes Jesus is interested in all of us. Gender and race are not a problem to Jesus. And for many that is not appealing. She also had had multiple husbands and who she was living with at the time was not her husband. 


Jesus was I believe intentionally sitting by a well and he started a conversation with an individual who was a Samaritan woman by asking her for a drink. And that caught her attention. Verses 9-10 says, "The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, 'You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?' Jesus replied, 'If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.'" And that was very appealing to her, That got her attention.

Verses 13-14, "Jesus replied, 'Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again, It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving then eternal life."  And that really caught her attention and verse 15a says, "'Please sir,' the woman said, 'give me this water.'" And that is where the conversation began. She knew he was a wise man and his knowledge was appealing to her.

She at one point ran into the city and told people about what she had heard from him. And verse 42 said, "Then they said to the woman, 'Now we believe, not just because of what you told us, but because we have heard him ourselves. Now we know that he is indeed the Savior of the world."

I have found the Bible so appealing to me because it is God's Word. It really does make a difference in my life. "The tongue of the wise makes knowledge appealing, but the mouth of a fool belches out foolishness." Also seeing how Jesus responded and what he said is so appealing. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning







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