510 -- Etch it, Baby, Etch it!
July 3 (7/3) in Godsfield -- Proverbs 7:3
(For Better or Verse: Each day in 2025 I will begin this Godsfield e-mail with a Bible verse that corresponds with the month (chapter 1-12) and day (verse 1-31) it is sent. This month features a lot of seventh chapters! Those with eyes and ears, let them see and hear.)
Proverbs 7:3 — Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
This is part of the Apple Trilogy -- three verses in Proverbs that center around God's ways being the apple of your eye, the most important thing for seeing truth, the most important thing to protect. (Yesterday's e-mail focuses on the pupil of the eye and the way God is the eyelid to protect us from whatever tries to keep us from that.
I suppose you had to be there, and I hope you were!
Today is verse three of that, which is the call to action: Wrap your fingers around it and etch them on your heart. Embrace it, study it and live it.
Wisdom is your friend, let wisdom be your teacher. Can we know wisdom when we see her? (Wisdom is a beautiful woman in Solomon's writing.) Yes, through the eyes that seek God's ways first. The pupil uses the pupil as the apple for the teacher which is God, the eyelid.
Got it?
It actually is not so random as it sounds, and wisdom can explain why.
I participate in a twice-weekly Zoom Bible study that is reading through the Bible chronologically, according to the timeline of when each part refers. I had better finish this up quickly because we go on in 42 minutes and I like to finish here before I go there.
We currently are reading through Proverbs and last time, after finishing one chapter of 12 chapters of one proverb after another, we commented that each verse is its own sermon. A whole chapter of presumably random proverbs could produce 15-20 sermons, each verse at a time.
But only with the guidance of Wisdom, which is guided by the Holy Spirit of the living God who offers us life eternally through Jesus. None of this exists in a vacuum, it exist etched on the tablet of our heart.
Etch away, friend. Wisdom is your friend and Jesus is the Lord.
Your Lord.
Love ya,
Paul