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

Thursday... Maybe we need this word today.

Psalm 57:1b (NIRV), "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Thursday... Maybe we need this word today. There are words in life that give us confidence no matter what we are facing. Now we have to believe them in order for them to have an impact. David wrote Psalm 57 while he was in a cave hiding from Saul who wanted to kill him and he says in the last part of verse 1, "There I will stay." It was a safe place and Saul didn't know that he was there. But he doesn't stop there. With confidence he said, "There I will stay until." And until is definitely a word of faith and confidence. "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Do we need that today? Let me give you the whole verse. In verse 1 David says, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." And that is a great place to start in times of trouble. Maybe that is what we need to pray today, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." It is so great to have someone...

Tuesday... We just have trouble listening.

1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." Tuesday... We just have trouble listening. Over in Jeremiah 25:4 (NLT) it says, "Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention." And Jeremiah went on to tell what was going to happen. There will be consequences if we do not listen to what God says through his Word. Now the Apostle Paul over in 1 Corinthians was having a problem with some professed Christ followers who were having trouble at listening. And we too can have problems at listening. We can think that being a Christ follower means we do a lot of finger pointing and we give up on people who don't do what we say. We can even do that in our families. But Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." In verse ...

Friday... It is so exciting but wait a minute.

Proverbs 19:2 (NLT), "Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes." Friday... It is so exciting but wait a minute. This time of the year is so exciting. We get our paycheck from work and then we head to the store or Amazon and buy and buy and buy all those presents and then our check is gone Proverbs 19:2 (NLT) says, "Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes." But buying gifts can be so much fun and seeing how happy they are when opening those presents makes us feel so good. But then verse 3 says, "People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then they are angry at the Lord." Now for some that is their life. They get money and they spend it on their wants with no thought of what needs to be paid. An important lesson that we have learned is just because you have money in the bank doesn't mean you must spend it. But our enthusiasm takes over. But the problem is when it is gone and there is no money to pay th...

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