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Reading:
Proverbs 27:14-27

Late last night I decided it is necessary for me to scale back and refocus my footprint on the Web.

Here are some of the particulars of that decision:

  • Cease from posting at Bless! as I have been.
  • Cut back posting at Ain’t Complicated to once a week.
  • After getting through Proverbs this time, stop posting here at Panting Hart (unless it’s to post my “inspirational” images for computer wallpaper and screensavers).
  • Stop being a regular visitor and/or contributor to some blogs.
  • Resume development of Anabaptists.

Like I indicate in the title, this is a difficult decision which will be difficult for me to implement.

However, in my reading this morning, these two verses confirm my decision for me:

“Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds” (23).

“For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?” (24).

The state of my flocks is not good.

[He that waiteth on his master shall be honoured (Proverbs 27:18)]
from Proverbs 27:18

Reading:
Proverbs 26:1-14

Wow! This chapter has a dreary beginning, with eleven of the first twelve verses devoted to comments about the fool. As you might guess, none of the comments are positive. None are even merely neutral. To be a fool is bad, bad, bad.

At the end of that batch of verses, we find this one (which, come to think of it, does have a positive ring of hope for the fool, though not for being a fool):

“Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him” (12).

Whoa!

That being the case, deliver me from pride and all the self-exalting traits that accompany it!

(And also deliver me from being a fool.)

[The great God...rewardeth (Proverbs 26:10)]
from Proverbs 26:10

A little bit more from Proverbs 26: God Is Great