The book of Proverbs is a guide for pursuing godly wisdom in our daily lives. In this four-week study, we will read a selection of topical proverbs covering different aspects of wisdom, from how to interact with our friends, families, and neighbors, to fearing God and keeping His commands. No matter the subject, these proverbs urge us to wrestle with and reflect on our own response to them. To help you better engage with the proverbs in this reading plan, we have provided you with a short introduction and reflection questions for each day.
In this life, we experience blessings and curses—consequences of choices we make or the choices others make that affect us. The preserving grace of God assures us that He is not temperamental or spiteful, but does discipline His children. His discipline is for our flourishing because how we live and what we do here and now matters.
Reflection Questions:
To what extent do you recognize God’s blessings in your life? What are some ways God has blessed you?
To what extent do you recognize God’s opposition in your life? Are there any areas of your life you feel God has thwarted or opposed?
What do you think God is responding to when He blesses? What do you think God is opposing when He curses?
I just gotta say I’m loving this study, especially all the reflection questions! So many ‘woah’ moments already. More like this please! ❤️
I just gotta say I’m loving this study and the reflection questions. I’ve had so many mind blown’
This reading I found very helpful pointing out wisdom for my daily life. This is a good study. The questions are thought provoking.
By the resurrection of Jesus, I believe we are free from the curse, BUT we are not free from consequence. I can see the innumerable boundless, extravagant, lavish blessings and mercies God had poured out over my life
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While I see all the blessings God has poured out over me in my lifetime, I also see the places where he has not cursed me, but allowed me to sit with the consequences of choices I’ve made that opposed his instruction and defied His words. I am thankful for the lessons as much as the blessings.
Thank you Kenzie
I totally can’t agree less to your side of opposition, mine is exactly the same. While I keep wondering how this can be turned around, I’m now learning to live by it while finding my joy in Him alone rather than waiting for what I longed to have to be joyous. Thank you for sharing.
This was a hard one you guys…
Day.5. To what extent do you recognize God’s blessings in your life? What are some ways God has blessed you?
`I think God blessed me by putting me in my mother lap, and blessed us both by not having to worry over food or Money (till a certain point). I’m not healthy nor always happy (you could use the word depressed). But without my mother i wouldn’t be able to come and go as far as with her, I always count that as one of my biggest blessings. And when I’m good I can see blessings and little joy moments everywhere, like in the sun or the rain, in the small steps that I or someone else takes, in His creations or in the creativity He gave me. Only when I’m down I’m down and then I find it hard to feel His blessings, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there or / and that, that is not a blessing in disguise.
To what extent do you recognize God’s opposition in your life? Are there any areas of your life you feel God has thwarted or opposed?
`No not really, I sometimes wish God was clearer to me about what I should cut out of my life. But as I think / say this i also feel like it is something that I still have to grow and learn in. And that it is something that will become clearer as I learn and study the bible and His words.
What do you think God is responding to when He blesses? What do you think God is opposing when He curses?
`I find it still hard to understand, I vind curse a hard word and find it hard to believe that the God of love still in this time and age would curse a household. But then He is capable of everything, and that if He would, he would have the best reason. But I also think a “curse” can be seen as a correction a ‘he don’t do that, that will bring you no were but further from me’
What do you think God is responding to when He blesses? Obedience.
Belief and
Love
Excels and is
Sweetly
Solid
(1 John 3:21-23: Belief and Love);
What do you think God opposes when He curses? Disobedience.
Communion
Undone by the
Repetitive
Sin of the
Enslaved
(Psalm 66:18: Cherishing sin).