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Discipleship Focus: Character
- Character: Having the interior life that is necessary to support the work that God sets before a person. It is hearing from God and obeying. It is doing the right thing when nobody is looking.
As we
look at Proverbs 6, we’ll save the passages on adultery for tomorrow when we
can focus on the topic in whole. That
means that today I’ll just be looking at the opening half of the chapter. As we look into the first half of this
chapter we understand that this chapter is about getting along in
community.
This
chapter is about how to get along without taking advantage of the people around
you. This chapter is about how it is
better for us to go and make amends while an offense is new rather than to
allow an offense to fester. This chapter
is about making a good name for ourselves in our community. This chapter is teaching us to not be a
person in a community who sows discord.
In the
end, this chapter is really about character.
This chapter is about who we are as a person. Are we interested in doing what we desire or
are we interested in what is best for the community around us? It is difficult to live with a communal
perspective, but that is the rewarding option.
The world around us tells us to focus on ourselves. After all, it’s all about me, right? But this chapter of proverbs tells us
differently. A truly wise person has a
communal perspective.
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