Raw Thoughts

To the woman of Proverbs 31, her fear of the Lord can be likened to that of the Jenga blocks. While the blocks are being taken out one by one, there will be this key block keeping everything together.

An acrostic poem

                               Proverbs 31: 10-12, 14, 27-31

             Who can find a viRtuous woman?

                                     For her wOrth is far above rubies.

The heart of her husband safely trust her,

                so that he shall haVe no lack of gain

             She does him good and not Evil all the days of her life.

           She is like the meRchants' ships

                                                She Brings her food from afar.

                                      She watcheS over the ways of her household

                                   And does not eat The bread of idleness

     Her children rise up and call Her blessed

Her husband also, and he praIses her

                                     "Many daughteRs have done well,
but you excel them all"

               Charm is deceiTful

                                 And beautY is passing

                                   But a woman whO fears the Lord,
she shall be praised

Give her of the fruit of her haNds

                     And let her own works praisE her in the gates

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Faithfulness is fulfilling God's purpose in the face of feelings - Ben Wikner

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After listening to the online sermons, I realised that the speaker often begins by sharing an experience close to his heart before bringing out a point. A life and death moment , a low period in life, a heart issue they struggle with. The common thread that seems to run through each sermon despite the different personality and approach of presentation. It makes me understand that before something can get through to our head, it has to get into our hearts first.

Before a conviction is being birthed, it needs to go through a reconstruction of the heart first. It may be painful but it's certainly necessary. It's amazing how we do not usually remember our thoughts so clearly and some even fleeting, especially when we do not pen them down as they come. They will just go with the wind as fast as they came. It's ever so often to lost our train of thoughts or to let it run wild till we do not know where we began with. But certainly, we never forget how we feel. Be it 2 years, 5 years or 10 years, we remember clearly the feelings of disappointment, discouragement, grief, sadness etc. And even the words or deeds done to make us feel that way at that particular moment.

One does not need to take too long for it to resurface in our memory. I think what makes the difference is to learn something out of the experience, instead of suppressing it or distracting ourselves from it. This is probably how we get all the inspiring quotes from people which often sets us in our seats, amazed at the acuteness of the truth spoken/written. Before it's first-hand information :P