🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿
Take my words to heart. Follow my commands and you will live. Get wisdom; develop good judgment. Don’t turn your back from wisdom, for she will protect. Love her, and she will guard you.—Proverbs 4:4-6
🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿
A new year brings with it the excitement of newness. New people, new places, new purposes to encounter, engage, and experience. A New Year’s party to kick off what lies tantalizing ahead. But no celebration can move the groove without music. No dance can start the part without a companion. In this new year, the best chords to bogie and wogie with: Wisdom.
Our heart hears well before our brain does. That’s why we fall in love before we process rationally the consequences. When we hear sweet words that sweep our feet, our heart follows before our brain says wait. When we choose the wrong dance partner, and find the fiesta, a fiasco, the function, a failure.
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Rock’n Roll.
Samson meets Deliah. He has the best time of his life. Rock n roll music roaring. Colorful confetti cascading. Flavorful food flowing. But the problem: Samson has picked the wrong dance partner. So God sends Samson three interludes to give him time to reconsider his choice. Whether Samson heeds or not will determine the course of his life.
Interlude 1. Deliah binds Samson up with seven new bowstrings. She calls the Philistine soldiers to arrest him. Time to drop dance partner.
Interlude 2. Deliah binds Samson with new ropes that have never been used. She cries to the Philistine soldiers to arrest him. Time to ditch dance partner.
Interlude 3. Deliah binds seven braids of Samson’s hair into new fabric. She collects the Philistine soldiers to arrest him. Time to discharge dance partner.
Each of these 3 events is an admonishment from God to dismiss his current half. But Samson dismisses God’s warnings, and is himself dismissed by Deliah. Oh the dance of deceit and deception! The rhythm of sin unsynchronizes the sanctification that can only be found in dancing with a holy God.
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Rise’n Wise.
Take my words to heart. Our heart hears ahead of our brain. Our emotions gyrating our heart dictate our actions long before our common sense can decipher the truth. This new year, p-a-r-t-y differently. Feed God’s words deep into your soul. Follow His lead in abundant discernment.
Instead of discoing with the flesh as Samson does, dig the jig with Wisdom. Unlike Deliah, Wisdom will…
Love you, not leave you.
Protect you, not pervert you.
Guard you, not give you up for a better trade.
Happy Wisdom New Year! The genesis of the party begins now. Swinging music is roaring and soaring. Strobe lights are whirling and twirling. Trip the night fantastic with a new partner.
Rise and Wise up!!
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©️2020 Jordan Su