I will be an investigator of CPS starting pretty soon, within the next month. It's extremely daunting and scary, but I think it's the right decision and if it's not, God will let me know pretty quick...
Proverbs:
21:2 "All a man's ways seem right to him, but the LORD weighs the heart."
21:3 "To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice."
Here we are again with matters of the heart and the fact that God continues to look at our inmost being rather than just our outward actions. He looks at our reasoning, our motives and thoughts. I pray that mine would be to serve you fully.
Again there are pretty common themes, disciplining your child in a proper weigh, following the advice of your parents will make them proud and honored. Watch out for the poor and seek to bring them aid. Be careful what you say and how you say it because it could bring life and joy or death and destruction.
These verses struck me, as they have before, and you too may find them familiar as we are called to do this centuries later through the words of the New Testament. 25:21-22, "If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you."
Also remember the gift that friends are and that their wisdom can bring much health to your own life.
The three things, even four sayings toward the latter portion of chapter 30 are interesting to read and I encourage you to spend some time with these. At the least it brings you into God's creation and reminds us how intricate and wonderous this world truly is; this world that God has created for us.
Chapter 31. It's interesting that this is an acrostic. I'll just be honest with you, the woman described here is too good. I cannot comprehend how anyone, male or female, could do and be all the things this woman is, but what this woman reminds me of, is the character of God. The way that he nurtures and cares for us. Just giving you something to think about.
Ecclesiastes: It is said that this is written by Solomon and as such it gives me a new perspective on the king I don't like very much. Ecclesiastes is not a book to read if you want to feel uplifted, but it is still a good book to read and learn from. All is meaningless and there is nothing new under the sun. This is the common theme throughout the book and the author tries various means to seek out meaning - through wisdom, through folly, through righteousness, through debauchery and pleasure. Still we all meet the same fate, death. This is true and I have been where the author of Ecclesiates has gone. I have hated life. I have felt that all was meaningless and "a chasing after the wind." Still, the author has it right, "without [God] who can eat or find enjoyment?" He is the author of our life and our reason for existing. With him there is hope, but we'll get there. The author has not yet, so tomorrow, more despair moving to hope. All of it is honesty and life. Blessings!
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