Halfway!

Can you believe it? You are roughly halfway through the 1-92 challenge!!! You are doing great so keep it up. If you have fallen behind jump back in with us on today’s reading and try again, but whatever you do, DON’T STOP OR GIVE UP NOW! Keep making time in your day to read God’s Word and be blessed by His wisdom and guidance.
We are in the Proverbs now, and while they are great nuggets of truth, they can also be hard to read. These chapters don’t read like narrative or prose. They are short statements and often times the previous statement has nothing to do with the next. It is also important to remember that the Proverbs are probabilities not certainties. For example “He who loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and oil will never be rich.” The probability is if you love pleasure and wine you will not be rich, however we could all name people who are indeed rich, but they love earthly pleasures and drink much wine. Or the proverb that says “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” This is a probability. If you train up a child in the way he should go the probability is that the child will grow up to follow the Lord and be a productive member of society. But this is not a guarantee it is a probability. We could all name parents who have done a wonderful job raising their children only to see them grow up and depart from the things they were taught. We could also name those who did a horrible job raising their children and the child grows up to be wonderful. So as you read these proverbs don’t get locked in thinking that these things are certainties or promises. Most of them are probabilities and wise counsel that we should follow in our daily lives to increase our faith, success, prosperity, and social standing in life. Once again keep up the good work, we have learned a lot in the first half of the year and we will learn much more in the coming days!