Proverbs

There are a few books of the Bible I rarely read: Leviticus, Numbers, Proverbs and Romans.  Why?  Well, sorry, but they just have never spoken to me.  In fact, if I need to get to sleep - well, they are guaranteed to knock me unconscious in nothing flat!  Usually, I have no problem getting to sleep though ...

So, Friday night, bored and coming down with my grandson's cold, I turned to Proverbs and started reading.  Unfortunately, the desired result was not achieved.

This was the first time I have read in Proverbs since God saw fit to so dramatically modify my nature.  It was not boring in the least, if made me ponder, verse by verse, thought by thought as I was seeing what Salomon had written his son.  No, I did not get far, only as far as chapter 7 when I finally was utterly exhausted but not by boredom.

I still have a problem exactly relating to some of what he says, I never experienced those situations in my life - just too flat naive to even be aware they even existed, when I might have known or been enticed!  Now too old to even be bothered by such things!  LOL

So I will be going back to my bookmarked stopping point and picking up with Chapter 7 and continue as far as I can make it.  It is alot like reading Bonhoeffer to me now, weighty and worth consideration as to the principals he is passing on to his son.

Want to join me this weekend in reading along ... ?