Proverbs
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Practical Living Rules From Proverbs
Proverbs 4:23-27 23 “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. 24 Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips. 25 Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. 26 Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast…
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The Five Senses of Faith
Proverbs 3:5-6 “…all your heart…..your own understanding…..all your ways….your paths.” Our five senses are the beginning point of much of our lives. If you think about it, without them, we would look like robots, having been programmed by something else. In fact, the new push is to somehow get our five senses into computer form…
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Read, Turn, and Apply: Walking in Godly Wisdom
Proverbs 2:1-5 “My son, if accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for silver and search…
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The Money Trap
Proverbs 1:17-19 17 If a bird sees a trap being set, it knows to stay away.18 But these people set an ambush for themselves; they are trying to get themselves killed.19 Such is the fate of all who are greedy for money; it robs them of life. In the movie Ice Age, we all get a kick out of seeing the…
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Read the Instructions
Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.” I was on a fishing trip back in the day with some members of our company. One of the guys brought his teenage son along. After going out and catching a lot of trout, we cleaned all…
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Embracing God’s If-Then Statements
Proverbs 3:1-4 In computer programming, you have if-then statements. If you do this, then this will happen. I’m not a computer programmer, but I did build a DOS program back in the day for school. This was before the touchscreen, smartphone world we live in today. I still remember programming those if-then statements. I had…
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2025 Pressing On
Proverbs 3:5-8 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.[a] 7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil.8 This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones. Here we are in 2025. Letitgo.blog has published 359…
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Wise Counsel
Proverbs 11: 14 “Where there is no counsel, the people fall; But in the multitude of counselors there is safety.” On Naked and Afraid we see the poor judgement of people drinking water that has not been purified by boiling and they got sick. A little while after they have drank the water, that night, or even the next day, the…
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Voice Activation
Proverbs 18:21 “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” I love voice activation technology. In our apartment, we have Alexa that turns on/off all the lights, plays music, and answers pretty much any question that we have about anything we can think of. Recipes, history…
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Keeping Silent
Below are a few verses on keeping silent and a short devotional to follow. In the multitude of words sin is not lacking,But he who restrains his lips is wise.(Prov. 10:19 NKJV) The prudent keep their knowledge to themselves,but a fool’s heart blurts out folly.(Prov. 12:23 NIV) The one who guards his mouth preserves his…
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