Applying the Proverbs.

I have decided, along with my mother, to delve into the Proverbs a bit deeper than I ever have before. The book of Proverbs is an extremely beautiful book when you think of all the wisdom that is imparted through it. It's Christ's heart saying.... "This is the way! Walk in it!". Yet all my life I have read through the proverbs as a bystander. Gleaning insight when I thought useful, admiring truth, yet never fully applying it to me, on a very personal level. I have never completely examined my own course of actions and thoughts in close comparison to the way of the wise; ever so clearly laid out for us in this wonderful book. So here it is. My Journey starts now.

I would challenge you to join me if you too, have never done such a thing. It won't all be pleasant. Your choosing to humbly approach scripture with the question, how do I measure up to this? Where is my heart on  this? Your opening yourself up for reproach from our King. Your wholeheartedly saying: "Lord change me, open my eyes to my own misguided ways, show me the way of truth and wisdom, no matter what the cost." I am expecting some painful moments on this path. My eyes will be opened to some "skinned knees" if you will, from all the areas I have so desperately fallen short. Yet it's when we realize our brokenness, and our need for change, through Christ's Grace we are covered, healed, and changed. That is my ultimate goal. At the end of this journey, I want to be changed. I want to look more like Christ than when I started. That is my desire. That is my prayer.