Lena's Journalin to Proverbs 4 Today

Let’s go over some verbs of Proverbs 4
Listen
Pay Attention & Grow
Don’t turn away
Take My words to heart
Follow
Learn
Develop
Don’t forget
Don’t turn away - don’t turn away
Love
Get good judgment
Prize wisdom - Embrace her
Listen
Live
Don’t limp or stumble
Have a good long life
Run
Carry out instructions
Don’t forsake instruction
Guard them
Do not follow the path of evil doing
Avoid copying them -Turn away from that
Shine
Pay Attention
Listen carefully
Don’t lose sight
Let My words penetrate deeply
Discover their meaning
Guard your heart above all else you do.
Avoid perverse speech
Stay away from cheap talk.
Look straight with focused & fix on the prize and call, eyes
Mark out a straight path
Stay safe
Don’t get sidetracked!
Keep your feet righteous, from following evil.

Verbs are doing words.
Have a blessed day.

James 1:22-25
Said in 4 descriptive ways:
22And remember, it is a message to obey, not just to listen to. If you don't obey, you are only fooling yourself. 23For if you just listen and don't obey, it is like looking at your face in a mirror but doing nothing to improve your appearance. 24You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. 25But if you keep looking steadily into God's perfect law—the law that sets you free—and if you do what it says and don't forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.

22Don't fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! 23Those who hear and don't act are like those who glance in the mirror, 24walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.
25But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God--the free life!-even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action.

22Do not deceive yourselves by just listening to his word; instead, put it into practice. 23If you listen to the word, but do not put it into practice you are like people who look in a mirror and see themselves as they are. 24They take a good look at themselves and then go away and at once forget what they look like. 25But if you look closely into the perfect law that sets people free, and keep on paying attention to it and do not simply listen and then forget it, but put it into practice---you will be blessed by God in what you do.

22But be doers of the Word [obey the message], and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth].
23For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his [own] natural face in a mirror;
24For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like.
25But he who looks carefully into the faultless law, the [law] of liberty, and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he shall be blessed in his doing (his life of obedience).