
Don’t you love reading a few proverbs of wisdom every day? It’s so refreshing to see so many different ideas being covered. Some really hit home and cause me to re-evaluate my choices. I’m guessing if I read this same passage a month from now a different proverb would speak to me (though I certainly never hope to be a quarrelsome wife)!
Today let’s focus on verse 3 which reads, “The Lord is more pleased when we do what is right and just than when we offer him sacrifices.” Interesting when you think of all the passages that talk about sacrifices as a way to atone for sinfulness. It’s a chicken and the egg phenomena. If we don’t misbehave and do wrong and unjust things, we don’t need sacrifices anyway. God would rather we lives our lives in a way that is pleasing to him, and it will also be pleasing for us. But even when we give it our best, we still sin. It’s in our nature.
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