proverbs is like our speed dating in the board it's like let's get in and
get out and figure out what i need you know i got few minutes let's find out what i need
and i grew up in a home my um dad came from a congressman's family my grandfather was a
congressman and so he came from a new york very you know kind of uh educated environment and my
mom was a farm girl from california grew up on a on a beef cattle farm at ranch and
so i lived in this home with this dichotomy of this new yorker bit you know kind of a fancy
fancy bougie guy and then a mom that's like you're sick take your socks off you'll get better and
so i lived in this space and i found that their faith was very similar so my dad's faith was very
you know educated and academic and very much line by line and a little bit elevated in that space
on my mom i like to say she had the anointing of common sense like legit common sense she was
the woman that would say things and i use her stuff more than i ever used with my dad because
she would use phrases from the word primarily from proverbs and it would just clear everything up it
was like this is what truth is so what you guys were saying yeah and i was thinking about this
one time you know my favorite i mean there's a lot in proverbs it's hard to pick one but my favorite
would be you know there's wisdom and a multitude of council which is out of proverbs 15 22.
and i was remember when i went to marry my husband ben and you know i know that i seem very passive
i'm not passive and my husband is more on the passive side and i was 27 and i'm ready to you
know i've been saving myself for my spouse i'm married this man he's going to be a preacher and
power house and he's gonna make everybody know why i waited so long he's gonna prove my value right
and um i'm gonna and we're gonna be it's gonna be a one-two punch i'm gonna take the world over
and when i met ben i loved ben i enjoyed ben but i didn't see how we were going to reach the world
together and i remember calling my sister up and you have these like really critical conversations
in your you know in this moments right because there's only a few you don't get to choose your
parents you don't get to choose your sometimes you'll get to choose your kids depending on if
god gives you that grace but often your spouse is kind of the person you choose to do life with
and and i said um i don't know i i don't know if ben's the one for me because i he's not the kind
of guy that i thought i would marry and she said this to me she said you know havilah type a guys
are really fun to work with but they're not very fun to live with and something about the way she
said it i realized oh my gosh i was putting him in a picture of making my life work in a work world
rather than making my life work in a real life world and it was like that word cleared up all
of it and i have kept that in my heart for now almost 16 years of marriage and i think that's
what the word does it's like we're like bringing everything to him and then proverbs is just like
hey there's a multitude of counsel there's wisdom and a multitude of counsel so find that one person
and i don't know about you guys but i have that one person that if i need to make a phone call
i need the word of god i need it you know down and dirty give it to me straight i need to know
what it is i don't have time to go through every book of the bible with you and hear about your
experience and god i need to know what i need to know today and so proverbs is that we open
up the word and we get that kind of chunk and we keep going there's time for it all but that for me
that has been quite i love that you highlight the fact that it's practical have love because yeah
i think some people think the word of god is so ethereal and there are poetical aspects there are
passages that are wonderful for contemplation but proverbs is really about applied wisdom so you do
get these nuggets you go oh wow that's super clear i don't have to go alone in the desert and fast to
figure this one out this is real clear lean not get counsel from other believers i think we tend
to equate information about god with intimacy with god and it's a poor substitute we can't just glean
information and without relationship and that's one of the reasons they wrote proverbs you know
during this culture they had a lot of wisdom and ungodly cultures or what they called wisdom
but it was really about an accumulation of knowledge the greek understanding was just
read more you know learn more study more it was memorizing details and these godly men there's
a team of men who wrote proverbs said no it's not just about facts and memorizing information
it's taking information combining that with a relationship with yahweh with god
and then it's practical it's applied and i i think that's so critical for us to talk about because
we'll have people listening today who go just give me something that helps me get through this week
and i go well that's in here it's a love story but it's inherently practical i
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