Do you ever read the Bible and find yourself laughing? Some of the verses in today's Proverbs reading should have that effect.How about verses 14-16? They read, "Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing. A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one's right hand" (ESV). While there are parts of the Bible that make us laugh, as we read them we can also see our failure. Maybe you're someone who rises early in the morning and is very gregarious. You may be a curse to someone. Maybe you are someone who is slow to start in the morning and whose attitude can really drag someone else down. You're a curse to someone as well. Maybe you are a quarrelsome wife. Maybe you have decided your wife is quarrelsome and tend to provoke her to such behavior.
Everywhere we look at the Scripture we can see ways that we would be able to fail in living the life God states is good and right. What will we do? Of course, if you have read this blog for very long, you know exactly what we are going to do. We look to our Lord and Savior, who has died for our sin and is risen to lead us in the resurrection. As we read in John today we see that Jesus is indeed risen. He is not in the tomb. Despite his telling the disciples repeatedly that he would rise from the dead, they don't know what to do when they find this to be the case. But Jesus is in fact risen from the dead. He has appeared to his disciples. He has ascended to heaven where he is seated in the place of greatest influence at the right hand of the Father. When we fail in living that Christian life, we know that Christ has lived it on our behalf. Thanks be to God.
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