Pursuit of intimacy

Proverbs 1:29 KJV — For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

God wants you to intimately experience everything that Jesus paid for you to have. He doesn’t want you to just be aware of it. He wants you to experience it more than you do.

But you have to pursue it.

Intimacy is neither accidental nor automatic.

If you will choose to hunger for the experience of what God’s Word says, then you will be satisfied.

Don’t settle for the snack of Information.

Insist on having the entire wedding feast that God wants you to enjoy right now.

Your ways

Proverbs 31:3 KJV — Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

You’ve got ways that you use to travel through this moment of time and physical space.

You’ve got ways, habits, that travel across the entity of time and space called you.

Some of these creatures are assassins seeking to destroy Kings.

Do not let them pass on the King’s Highway which is your time and physical use of space.

Deny them access. Say “No!”.

Nobody else will do this for you.

Denying access to that which destroys Kings is part of your job description as a human being who is now a royal priest in Jesus.

Where is your Trust?

Proverbs 29:25 KJV — The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.

Is it in the confidence of what man can do to you/for you?

Or is in the goodness and greatness of the Lord who loves you?

God or mammon.

Trust in the Lord or fear of man.

These are the only two places your confidence is able to dwell.

Where is yours right now?

Speed = Distance/time

Proverbs 28:20 KJV — A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

1 page per day. (John Grisham)

20 miles per day. (Roald Amundsen)

1 second per day. (Nick Park)

1 blog post per day. (Seth Godin)

Regardless of what your distance is, keep showing up every day to walk it.

It’s somewhere in your house

Proverbs 27:26-27 KJV — The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.

Wealth and riches are in your house.

That’s the promise of Scripture.

You’ve already got it.

It may be wrapped lamb’s clothing, attached to a dirty, smelly, bleating thing.

But you’ve got it.

Once you understand this, then you’ll start to see it.

And once you see it: act on it.

Use what you have in your house…and don’t live as if you aren’t where you are.

More wood is required

Proverbs 26:20 KJV — Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

If you’re not feeling the passion and heat that you used to, you probably need more wood.

The spark comes from the fact that you still care and have even noticed that things aren’t as they used to be, and it bothers you.

Fuel this spark with the Word. Fuel this spark with things that feed it and make it bigger, rather than things that snuff it out.

Joy and endurance

Hebrews 12:2 KJV — Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Endurance doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

Endurance is a response to the pursuit of joy.

There’s something in front of you that is worth more than the agony it will take to get to it.

Maybe you don’t need more endurance, you just need to amplify and magnify the joy in front of you.

Envy is a choice…

Proverbs 24:1 KJV — Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

…and you can choose not to subscribe to envy.

Just because a feeling shows up doesn’t mean it has to stay.