1st Corinthians

First Corinthians

Summary: Wealthy and a center of trade biblical Corinth could be compared to the  California. Having a large temple to the Godess of love Aphrodite, Corinth had one of the largest most expensive population of temple prostitues and worship. It is no wonder Paul first letter is addresses sex, marriage, idolatry and do much more. Though my reading I noticed a great deal but this post I left done out due to possible misinterpretation due to lack of context. Still there is more the enough to see.

Things I Noticed:

1. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

2. God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise. 

3. God chose what is low and despised in the world. (What is rejected is a treasure to the King.)

4. God is the source in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption. 

5. What no eye has seen, nor ear has heard, nor heart has imagined, what God  has prepared for those who love him.

6. The Spirit searches everything, even the depth of God. (To know the depths of God one must be lead by the Spirit of God.)

7. No one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the Spirit of the World, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 

8. Interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. (Those who do not have the Spirit can not understand deep truths.)

9. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you we're not yet ready for it. And even now you are not ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and be having only in a human way? (Sounds like competing churches.)

10. This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. (Yes God has mysteries and we can know and understand them.)

11. Apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.

12. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.

13. For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. 

14. For what right do we have in judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. 

15. Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the Kingdom of God. 

16. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 

17. The sexual immoral person sins against his own body.

18. You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

19. For a wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.(Something to meditate on married couples.)

20. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. (Yes have sex married couples and have it often.)

21. For it is better to marry then to be aflame with passion. 

22. Only let each person lead the life that The Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. 

23. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

24. For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them...that by all means I might save some.

25. Every athlete exercises self control in all things... But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself be disqualified.

26. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide away of escape, that you may endure it. 

27. Imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.

28. If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any questions on the grounds of conscience. 

29. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience? (Great question of ethics involving modern politics.)

30. Woman was made from man, so man is now born from woman.

31. When we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. 

32. All were made to drink of one Spirit.

33. If one member suffers, all suffers together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. (How often is this forgotten.)

34. Earnestly desire all the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. (That way is Love.)

35. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

36. Pursue love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

37. One who prophesies speaks to people for their uplifting and encouragement.

38. If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your mind?

39. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

40. I die every day!

41. Bad company corrupts good morals.

42. Stars differ stars in glory.  

43. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is a spiritual body.

44. Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.

45. If anyone has no love for The Lord let him be accursed.

I am still in Corinth starting tonfeel strong enough to get back in the rhythm of the journey. Leviticus has been a strange journey of "how to". Another letter from Paul arrived by messenger and I thought I would read it as I stay here. Time goes differently as you heal and think. Meditation on what is read, learned and absorbed is a catalyst for all sorts of things in the soul. Spend time listening to God and in meditation, more next time. Till then, Read up, Post up, and Shalom.

Exodus

Book Of Exodus

Summary: The burden of Egypt was heavy on their shoulder. Almost four hundred years of slavery and   abuse while crying out. Then it happened God moved and Moses was born. From their the book of Exodus becomes a great read: a murder happens, then a meeting between man and God, then a battle between God's representative and magicians, an ocean parting with dry land under foot, an army defeated drowned, a people going free and the plans for a tabernacle.  

Things I Noticed:

1. I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue. (Moses was both the greatest public speaker.)
2. Then the Lord said to Moses "Who had made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind. Is it not I, Lord?
3. Then you shall say to Pharaoh, "Thus says the Lord, Israel is my first born son, and I say to you, "Let my son go that he may serve me." If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your first born son.'"
4. Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
5. The Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts.
6. The magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, but could not. (The scientist of their time failed but also believed in a higher power.)
7. Then the magicians said to Pharaoh "This is the finger of God."
8. So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. (No Starlight how would science explain it?)
9. I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast.
10. The people of Israel lived in Egypt 430 years.
11. Moses took the bones of Joseph with him.
12. The people of the sea went into the midst of the sea on dry ground.
13. When the dew of the land had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on on the ground. (Almost like flour? Or potato buds?)
14. Visiting the inequity of the Fathers to the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
15. And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.
16. Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.
17. Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
18. You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
19. You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
20. Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.
21. Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.
22. They beheld God, ate and drank
23. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution.
24. In the breastpiece of judgment you shall put Urim and the Thummin.
25. You shall make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from hips to the thighs. (God created underwear.)
26. I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship.
27. Let anyone who have gold take it off. So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf. (The Gold turned into a idol without a mold or coating a statue.)
28. Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. (What so awesome.)
29. You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.)
30. Every craftsman in whom The Lord has put the skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction.


I have been laid over in Corinth recouping from not being well. While here I have been I have been convinced by the brethren to read into Leviticus. Timothy been by my side talk to me of the letter Paul wrote encouraging my recovery. Life is a wondrous journey which God teaches me so much through his other children and his word. Now to go spend some time with God before more rest. Until
next time. Till then, Read up, Post up, and Shalom.

Romans

Book Of Romans

Summary: The heart beat of the Empire. The seat of government and now the Vatican. Rome a place of man stories, tragedies and the foundation for modern thought. Paul's letter address both Hellenistic and Jewish thought towards the believers of the church in this mighty city. With tones of correction and those of edification Paul's makes a clarifying arguments on faith, practice and belief. Take a look with me.

Things I Noticed:

1. I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
2. The righteous shall live by faith.
3. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. (Take a look at an orange some time. Peel it and stare in wonder at the packaging that goes back to the beginning of the cosmos. Yep perfect individual slices of Orange wrapped in a skin to keep it from dirt.)
4. Claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. (Movie Stars and Pets and Sports Teams and Stuff.)
5. God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance.
6. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
7. We have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand.
8. Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means!
9. So you must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
10. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus.
11. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
12. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
13. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
14. Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groaning too deep for words (Prayer Tongues)
15. If God is for us, who can be against us.
16. So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
17. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
18. If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
19. So faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ.
20. I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! (Yep the Jewish people are still the apple of his eye.)
21. For the gifts and callings of God are irrevocable. (No one can steal the or tack them or lose them.)
22. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
23. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
24. Let love be genuine
25. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
26. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve The Lord.
27. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
28. Repay no evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
29. Beloved never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." To the contrary, "if your enemy is hungry feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head." Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good.
30. Pay to all what is owed to them; taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respected is owed, and honor to whom honor is owed.
31. Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.  (We really need to teach this one in church.)
32. As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. (This is ignored a great deal. I am just as guilty but I have made progress.)
33. If we live, to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
35. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
36. So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.


Finished delivering my first letter to Rome, I am now off to Corinth. Nothing better the delivering encouragement to the saints. Barnabas has met up with Luke and I. The discussion on our journey has moved into the tabernacle, which, is great since I am still reading Exodus. Well more next time. Till then, Read up, Post up, and Shalom.

Acts

Book Of Acts

Summary: With Jesus gone what happened to the apostles? Who replaced Judas? Why as Gentiles do we not have to follow all the Jewish traditions and laws too? The Physician Luke after penning his historical account of Jesus wrote Acts to answer these question. The book is broken in two parts. The first is following the apostles and the second is Luke's account of following Paul around. Take a look at what I saw.


Things I Noticed:

1. Two men stood in white robes
2. All these with one accord were devoting themselves to praying together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
3. they were bewildered because each one was hearing them speak in his own language. (God giving perfect translation to all ears.)
4. And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?" But others mocking said, "They are filled with new wine."
5. Awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through apostles.
6. "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!" And he took him by the right hand raised him up.(Faith shown in action as Peter pulled the man up.)
7. The Author of Life
8. And his name-by faith in his name-has made this man strong whom you see
9. And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are preformed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.
10. We must obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.
11. for if this plan or this undertaking is of man, it will fail; but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God.
12. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the word.
13. Now an angel of The Lord said to Philip.
14. The Spirit of The Lord carried Phillip away. (Teleport, traveling whatever you call it God moves him incredible distances without a car.)
15. And for three days he was without sight and neither ate not drank.
16. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.
17. "Your prayers and alms have ascended as a memorial before God."
18. He fell into a trance. (Yep it's in here and Peter is the one who is experiencing it.)
19. A man stood before me in bright clothes.
20. If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God's way.
21. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christian.

22. Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world.
23. So the disciples determined, everyone according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea. (Prophecy brought charity and righteousness.)
24. They came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.
25. Elymas the magician opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
26. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city supposing that he was dead.
27. They had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting hey committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
28. By giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their heart by faith.
29. Should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.
30. And the arose a sharp disagreement (Yes it happens)
31. having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
32. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night:
33. Few of the leading women.
34. (I am partial to this verse because Jason was accused) "These men who have turned the world upside down..."
35. fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.
36. For the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.
37. Felix, having a rather accurate knowledge of the Way.
38. For this very night there stood before me an angel of the God whom I belong and whom I worship


Paul has been imprisoned so now I am hoofing it with his letters to some churches, the first one in Rome. I am now part of the ancient postal service delivering words to the saints. Luke is with me and we continue on our discussion of Exodus and how Moses is a foreshadow of the messiahship of Jesus. I have to go we are about to set up camp for the night. Till then, Read up, Post up, and Shalom.

Genesis

Book Of Genesis

Summary:  Our beginning it starts as a symphony of creation. Genesis tells the story of this song and if matched up to science the poem that is Genesis matches. There are many argument over time and evolution but putting that all aside and enjoying the mystery of creation and the meaning of the Hebrew words will delight you mind to even greater mysteries of God and his love. From Adam and Eve to Joseph this is the story of the forefathers of faith. Filled with mighty men, a flood, Pharaohs, kings, battles, injustice and reconciliation we get a raw look at men, faith, their mistakes and God mercy despite our bad decisions. Genesis is more then the beginning it is the a grand adventure.  

Things I Noticed:

1. Spirit of the God was hovering over the waters.
2. The God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."
3. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
4. But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
5. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will like God, knowing good and evil.
6. Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
7. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. (Angels making babies with women)
8. And God made the wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
9. The intention of man's heart is evil from his youth.
10. I have set my bow over the cloud, and it shall be a sign of covenant between me and you. (A rainbow is God's very own bow.)
11. Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord... The beginning of his kingdom was Babel.
12. Nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. (When man put his mind to it nothing is impossible. God made us Limitless.)
13. They went forth together from Ur of the hardens to go into the Land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there. (Terah Abram's father stopped early of the promise.)
14. I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you. (A promise of Saul, David and Solomon. Ultimately Jesus the King of Kings.)
15. Abraham took Ishmael his son... and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.
16. Before I finished speaking in my heart. (Silent prayer)
17. Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. (After Sarah died he remarried)
18. Jacob was a quiet man.
19. Esau despised his birthright.
20. This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of Heaven.
21. Name of that place Bethel.
22. Rachel stole her father's household gods. (This was a sign of land rights and inheritance in those times)
23. "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiple"
24.  He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.
25. Judah is a Lion cub.
26. Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoils.
27. Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embaled Israel. (Israel was mummified think on that and its implications.)
28. As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.
29. Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. (They also mummified Joseph.)

Meeting Paul and seeing Peter give great testimony to Jesus has been incredible. I have even meet a man of my name who was accused of turning the world upside down. Still the Journey of the acts of the Church continues. Luke and I have moved to also discussing Exodus and the grand miracles the God showed his people long ago. It is also the book the foreshadows Jesus triumph over the ruler of this world. Anyway there will be more on these things later. Till then, Read up, Post up, and Shalom.

John

Book Of John

Summary: John the disciple Christ loved or so John likes to refer to himself as. As Christianity grew because of the disciples and Paul other factions and beliefs became and issue. One of these factions was called Gnosticism a belief that Jesus left behind secret knowledge that gave us power and that it was only meant for the chosen. John being a disciple wrote his Gospels to not only combat this horrendous heresy but to grab on to the greek believers who had an understand and a desire to find the truth. It is what John refer at the beginning to the Logos (or Truth) and that Jesus who is the logos has been around since before creation. John wrote and interesting book and made reference the Jesus might leave him around till he returns. It is an interesting thought since the Romans tried to boil him in a vat of oil only to have him survive with great skin and a rejuvenated out look on preaching the gospel.

Things I Noticed:

1. The wind blows where it wishes. and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. (The cry of every gypsy Christian.)
2. This is the judgment; the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
3. Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.
4. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me.
5. If you believed in Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.
6. Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they where going. (Teleportation write here done by Jesus.)
7. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.
8. The one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
9. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in.
10. For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.
11. I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?
12. I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
13. Truly, truly, I say to you , a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
14. Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him
15. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciple, if you have loved one another.
16. I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
17. Because I live you will live also.
18. You will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
19. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give you.
20. I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater then I.
21. For apart from me you can do nothing.
22. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has not one that this, that someone lays down his life for his friends.
23. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
24. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but because you are not of the world , but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
25. And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment.
26. It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it would be expedient that one man should die for the people.
27. If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!


Life has been something else I return to travel with Luke and as we walk with the disciples after Jesus accession. Still we talk of older scriptures Luke and I. We discuss Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as I journey with Dr. Luke and see the Acts of the body with my own eyes. Till then, Read up, Post up, and Shalom.

Proverbs

Book Of Proverbs

Summary: The value of wisdom is immeasurable; worth more then gold and beyond price men have spent life times seeking it. The book of proverbs is full of such value. It can be agreed that King Solomon who asked God for wisdom and was granted his request put the book together. Becoming the wisest man who ever lived Solomon left a legacy to his people and children. Still mystery shrouds Agur and Lemuel who are also mentioned in this book of wisdom. Some say they are other names for Solomon and still others kings. What I do know is three men of wisdom went to acknowledge Jesus and there being three men in this book create a great parallel. We are never done seeking wisdom and Proverbs is our first leap into that search from ethics to money the Authors give their insight.

Things I Noticed:

1. Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.
2. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
3. How long. O simple ones, will you love being simple.
4. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
5. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
6. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
7. Be not wise in your eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
8. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
9. Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it" -when you have it with you.
10. The devious person is an abomination to the Lord.
11. The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace.
12. Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
13. Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water your own well... Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breast fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. (This verse is self explanatory.)
14. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
15. With perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
16. He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself. Wounds and dishonor will he gel and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
17. For wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare to her.
18. The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
19. Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.
20. Do not reprove the scoffer or he will hate you; reprove a wise man and he will love you.
21. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
22. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself ; if you scoff, you alone will beat it.
23. The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry.
24. A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
25. Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
26. A rich man wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.
27. The desire of the righteous will be granted.
28. The treacherous are taken captive by their lust.
29. The righteous is delivered from trouble. (Pay attention to the next verse)
30. By knowledge the righteous are delivered.
31. ($)One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another with holds what he should give, and only suffers want.
32. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.
33. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise.
34. Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
35. An excellent wife is the crown of her husband.
36. He who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense. (Are we teaching ourselves to lacks sense with the worthless achievements we create with games, apps and media?)
37. The way of the fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
38. There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
39. Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord.
40. Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
41. A wise son hears his father's instruction.
42. One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
43. Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
44. Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
45. In everything the prudent acts with knowledge
46. A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul
47. Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise. (Find someone who is where you want to be and follow them.)
48. A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
49. Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
50. The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.
51. There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.
52. The poor is dislike even by his neighbor... Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
53. In fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have refuge.
54. A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh but envy makes the bones rot.
55. Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding, but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools.
56. A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
57. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
58. To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good is it. (Learning when to give word is tricky business. It takes patients rather then rushing to tell what you know.)
59. ($)Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household.
60. The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the bones.
61. Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
62. The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
63. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit. Commit your work to the Lord and your plans will be established.
64. The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the days trouble.
65. By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.
66. When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
67. The heart of man plans his ways, but the Lord establishes his steps.
68. How much better to get wisdom then gold!
69. Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
70. Whoever gives thought to the word (matter) will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.
71. Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life. (Age gracefully with pride)
72. Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.
73. A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
74. Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys
75. With dishonor comes disgrace
76. The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous man runs into it and is safe.
77. Humility comes before honor
78. An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
79. He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord
80. A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer then a brother.
81. Desire without knowledge is not good and whoever makes haste wit his feet misses his way.
82. Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
83. ($)Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord and he will repay him for his deed.
84. Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
85. It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every foo will be quarreling
86. Love not sleep, lest you come to property
87. Do not say, "I will repay evil"; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.
88. Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king, and by the steadfast love his throne is upheld.
89. The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their grey hair (Age gracefully with pride)
90. To do righteous and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice
91. When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to the evildoers.
92. One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead.
93. Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.
94. The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor. All day long he craves and craves, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.
95. A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
96. Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
97. ($)The rich rules over the poor and the borrower is the slave to the lender
98. ($)Be not one of those who gives pledges, who put ip security for debts
99. ($)Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.
100. Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. (Buy a college education, books, and create life.)
101. ($)By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
102. For by wise guidance you can wage your war and in abundance of counselors there is victory
103. My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste, Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will bot be cut off.
104. For the righteous falls seven times and rises again
105. Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, lest the Lord see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.
106. Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.
107. It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.
108. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
109. If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for you will heap burning coals on his head.
110. A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
111. Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.
112. Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
113. Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
114. He who guards his master will be honored.
115. As in water face reflects, so the heart of man reflects the man.
116. The righteous are bold as a lion.
117. If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
118. Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
119. A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor. (Our Current Government?)
120. ($)Whoever gives to the poor will not want.
121. Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
122. One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
123. The man declares, I am weary, O God; I am weary, O God, and worn out.
124. Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those, who take refuge in him.
125. The lion, which is mightiest among beast and does not turn back before any.
126. Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more
127. ($)Defend the rights of the poor and needy.
128. Strength and dignity are her clothing and she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. (A good wife)
129. (...She is call blessed) Her husband also and he praises her "Many woman have done excellently but you surpass them all." (I say that to my wife often.)
130. A woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Life has been rough as of lately and as John and I trace Jesus footsteps we are opened to the wonders of his teaching and the impact he left to us. As I hold on to the promises Jesus made I think it is time to head back to where the story began and get into the Torah. With that Genesis will be what will accompany me through Judea and Galilee as I journey with the Disciple He love. Till then, Read up, Post up, and Shalom.