wise old owl

I remember the day my mom taught me this one. I remember the exact location.

And it's stuck with me ever since.

But I can't say it's sunk in ever since.

*guilty look

*that's so cliché

*I dislike clichés

*strongly

***

Again, wisdom. A whole book of the Bible on it. Wow.

I used to think that to be silent made me wise. But wisdom doesn't stem from silence. Silence stems from wisdom. First you gain wisdom (note: slight conundrum here. Is it wise to gain wisdom? Are you wise to become wise? Or is there another step before that? Grace, maybe?), then you learn how little you really are and how much you have yet to learn. And do we learn when we are the ones talking? Rarely.

I don't want to go too much further with this because I have more than one pin on the subject.

And if I keep on talking, I won't be wise.

Hehe.

Thank Him

Um. Wow.

So, what are you really, really truly grateful for?

Cause, well if you aren't thankful for it, you won't care if it's taken away, right?

Ah ha! Gotcha, didn't I?

I feel like I am talking to a five year old.

But then, isn't that we are, in God's sight? Poor, weak, silly, ungrateful children. Like children, we never stop to think just how dependent we are. Like children, we forget to thank because we are so focused on grabbing what is being given to us. Like children, we fight over what isn't even ours. Like children, we are so apt to claim possession on things that have been given to us, as if we were the ones who by our own strengths and means obtained it. And like children, we think we deserve it.

Really, though. As children, we have no strength and no means to provide for ourselves. We are unworthy, we are undeserving, and we are so very ungrateful.

Oh. But as children, we have a Father. We are loved. Unworthily so; unto death even. What gift have we not been given?

Can you tell me this?

What are you in need of that our Heavenly Father has not provided? What has He provided that you are not even in need of?

And then, what do you thank Him for?

Can you tell me this?

I can't.

For all Your goodness I will keep on singing

Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find. 

consent

I was thinking about combining this one with a few other quotes I have pinned, because this one falls slightly short of what I would like to dig into. While this is true, the Christian should go deeper than their own consent; we should be all about God's consent. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 4:3 "But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself."

What?

Let's keep going.

"For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me." (vs.4)

I like this quote. I really do. It is a reminder not to live off of the praises of men.

But that is yet another quote I have pinned. So I better stop.



Happy Wednesday. We're over the hump.

love

Yeah. Don't try and define it to death. Receive it. Feel it. Give it. Do it.

"Love never ends. ...as for is knowledge, it will pass away." 1 Cor. 13:8

wisdom

Well, yes. 

Let us be wise. 

How? 

The fear of the Lord... 

Why fear Him?

Well, seek Him. 

And you will know Him. 

And you will fear Him. 

And that is the beginning of wisdom.