Proverbs 20:5-7 says...
Today's verses are Proverbs 20:5-7 which read,
5 - A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of understanding draws it out.
6 - Many a man proclaims his own loyalty, but who can find a trustworthy man?
7 - A righteous man who walks in his integrity--how blessed are his sons after him.
These verse draw out the difference between "just a man" and "an understanding, trustworthy, righteous man."
v.5 - We all have plans and dreams that are in the recesses of our minds. "In the back of my mind" is the phrase or maybe "It is on the back burner" to describe those things that are just concepts at this point. Many of them just stay there but there are those that you can't get away from. It takes "a man of understanding" to put legs to the idea or fins to allow it to swim to the surface to become a reality.
v.6 - We all can talk and some of us can "talk big" but the focus is our action to all that talk. We can say the right things at the right time in front of the right people but can we back that up with actions that are taken when no one is even listening or looking? Trust is built when words become actions consistently. One solution would be to just stop talking but that could lead to being very passive about everything. We need to bring our talk down to the level of what we actually do.
v.7 - Integrity is not meant to be a one time deal but something we walk in everyday. What is the result? Another generation following our example and that generation receiving the benefit from it. There is such peace and comfort and direction and purpose when we walk as Jesus walked.
So let us ask God for understanding to draw out those plans that He has set in our hearts that we can not walk away from. Let us speak and act the words of Jesus rather than our own and we will be safe from being someone who is "all talk and no action." Let us walk as an example of someone following Jesus so others (foremost our family) will have a clearer snapshot of our Jesus who was and is and is to come.
Pastor Adam
5 - A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of understanding draws it out.
6 - Many a man proclaims his own loyalty, but who can find a trustworthy man?
7 - A righteous man who walks in his integrity--how blessed are his sons after him.
These verse draw out the difference between "just a man" and "an understanding, trustworthy, righteous man."
v.5 - We all have plans and dreams that are in the recesses of our minds. "In the back of my mind" is the phrase or maybe "It is on the back burner" to describe those things that are just concepts at this point. Many of them just stay there but there are those that you can't get away from. It takes "a man of understanding" to put legs to the idea or fins to allow it to swim to the surface to become a reality.
v.6 - We all can talk and some of us can "talk big" but the focus is our action to all that talk. We can say the right things at the right time in front of the right people but can we back that up with actions that are taken when no one is even listening or looking? Trust is built when words become actions consistently. One solution would be to just stop talking but that could lead to being very passive about everything. We need to bring our talk down to the level of what we actually do.
v.7 - Integrity is not meant to be a one time deal but something we walk in everyday. What is the result? Another generation following our example and that generation receiving the benefit from it. There is such peace and comfort and direction and purpose when we walk as Jesus walked.
So let us ask God for understanding to draw out those plans that He has set in our hearts that we can not walk away from. Let us speak and act the words of Jesus rather than our own and we will be safe from being someone who is "all talk and no action." Let us walk as an example of someone following Jesus so others (foremost our family) will have a clearer snapshot of our Jesus who was and is and is to come.
Pastor Adam
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