"Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today’s Scripture: Proverbs 3:3.
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you;
bind them around your neck;
write them on the tablet of your heart. (ESV)
Never let loyalty and kindness leave you!
Tie them around your neck as a reminder.
Write them deep within your heart. (NLT)
“The binding to the neck and the writing upon the heart express the fact that God desires His commands to be the very life of His people-every breath they breathe and every beat of their hearts.” - The Preachers Outline and Sermon Bible Commentary
Other verses mentioned in the episode:
Hear, my son, your father's instruction,
and forsake not your mother's teaching,
for they are a graceful garland for your head
and pendants for your neck. (Proverbs 1:8-9)
All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness,
for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies. (Psalms 25:10)
He will send from heaven and save me;
he will put to shame him who tramples on me.
God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness! (Psalm 57:3 )
Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,
for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,
and no knowledge of God in the land; (Hosea 4:1)
Here we see Israel condemned for exactly what today’s verse is telling us not to do: not to forsake steadfast love and faithfulness
If you want a place to see and answer the questions I ask in the episode and to keep track of the discoveries you make as we study Proverbs, we include a set of free journal pages for this devotional series in each of our Sunday emails
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