[hidden treasures]

I've recently fallen in love with the old testament. {Exodus being my favorite so far.}  I am continually blown away by his persistence and yearning for our love.  His heart is the most beautiful treasure.  His love is like none I've ever encountered.  How blessed are we that it is never-ceasing - always increasing.  I cannot comprehend it.  Throughout all the Bible, he is just himself - Love.  And he gives us every opportunity to know him deeply, truly.  How beautiful.


The Value of Wisdom
My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
Then you will unerstand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
      discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,
delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,
men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed;
none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.
So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
Proverbs 2


WISDOM, INSIGHT, UNDERSTANDING - search for it as for [hidden treasures]

Oftentimes we get so caught up in the world as we know it, I think we forget that our one focus and one desire should be Abba.  Our gaze and our efforts should be totally directed toward him.  It's his desire.  He deserves it after all.

His beauty is like the noonday sun that brings life to all the world.

Comments

  1. This is so refreshing! I love you : ).

    -Kelly

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  2. P.S. I just noticed that I can post as "anonymous" even though I don't have a blog! You can now be expecting more feedback from me! Woohoo : ).

    -Kelly

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  3. :) so good! His love is so good. I've been obsessed with proverbs lately...

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