Proverbs 29 Instruction Correction Rebuke - Live!

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Proverbs 29:1-27
1Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.
2When the godly are in authority, the people rejoice. But when the wicked are in power, they groan.
3The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but if he hangs around with prostitutes, his wealth is wasted.
4A just king gives stability to his nation, but one who demands bribes destroys it.
5To flatter people is to lay a trap for their feet.
6Evil people are trapped by sin, but the righteous escape, shouting for joy.
7The godly know the rights of the poor; the wicked don't care to know.
8Mockers can get a whole town agitated, but those who are wise will calm anger.
9If a wise person takes a fool to court, there will be ranting and ridicule but no satisfaction.
10The bloodthirsty hate the honest, but the upright seek out the honest.
11A fool gives full vent to anger, but a wise person quietly holds it back.
12If a ruler honors liars, all his advisers will be wicked.
13The poor and the oppressor have this in common—the LORD gives light to the eyes of both.
14A king who is fair to the poor will have a long reign.
15To discipline and reprimand a child produces wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by an undisciplined child.
16When the wicked are in authority, sin increases. But the godly will live to see the tyrant's downfall.
17Discipline your children, and they will give you happiness and peace of mind.
18When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild. But whoever obeys the law is happy.
19For a servant, mere words are not enough—discipline is needed. For the words may be understood, but they are not heeded.
20There is more hope for a fool than for someone who speaks without thinking.
21A servant who is pampered from childhood will later become a rebel.
22A hot-tempered person starts fights and gets into all kinds of sin.
23Pride ends in humiliation, while humility brings honor.
24If you assist a thief, you are only hurting yourself. You will be punished if you report the crime, but you will be cursed if you don't.
25Fearing people is a dangerous trap, but to trust the LORD means safety.
26Many seek the ruler's favor, but justice comes from the LORD.
27The godly despise the wicked; the wicked despise the godly.

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~ Lena’s Journalin’
Ya know, the “right road”, “wrong road” thing?
This is what correction is about. There are two roads in life and in the Kingdom of God. The wide whose pathway leads to destruction and the narrow pathway that leads to life eternal. If somehow you don’t know you are on the incorrect road and find out, and in so finding out, you change roads, you’ve been corrected and have responded to the correction. That can be pretty simple or pretty complicated. What makes the difference? The heart.
Pride works its way into human hearts by way of unrepentant sin, unchecked thought processes and self centeredness. Pride tells us we do not need directions to get on another road, the road we are on is just fine. We don’t need to change; we are ok, like we are.
The thing is where you are, is a pathway that leads to destruction, and you don’t know it, because the enemy of your souls wants you to think it is a pretty and well traveled road.
So why would I want to receive regular criticism? To save my soul. We’re not talking about put downs. We’re talking about receiving instruction and correction to go a different way than we’ve gone, and just because we did not go the right way, does not mean we are terrible, especially if we are willing to learn, be taught differently and we change. Even if we find we were rebellious and independent, choosing the incorrect direction. Correction is God’s great grace on us while we still have time to get on the right road.
Even discipline, in vs 17, has the root word – disciple. In its intended form this word means correct, admonish, teach, instruct, reform. It does not mean beat to a pulp to force involuntary compliance as a dictator-tyrant. It means I show and tell you how, I walk you through, preferably as I, myself have also once walked through.
If a father or a mother have not led their children by example and taken time to teach children naturally and spiritually speaking, it will show up that time was not invested in the children’s growth. The parent, rather than being proud, at a later point in the child’s life, will feel shamed. It is the parents’ responsibility to show and tell by example. IF the parent or older teacher shows and tells, then the responsibility lies on the instructed to take what was learned and apply it.
In God’s kingdom, whether we had good examples or not, once we know better and are of an age to be able to know Him and make Him known, we are responsible for what we hear, to do it. To defy odds through the strength of Christ and live as examples, even if we are the first person we know to do it.
So, why am I not happy?, someone may ask themselves. Good question to ask one’s self. Truly, happiness is dependant upon the sowing reaping principle at work in you life. What have you sown? Seeds of love and grace? Seeds of obedient action towards God? Then you are probably not asking the question. If other seeds have been sown there needs to be an uprooting of bad seed. A simple uprooting can change a countenance quick.
Freedom lies inside of a freewill decision made.
This is the day to decide to really follow Christ and receive the words of the Bible as Gospel to you. Allow them to instruct, correct and even rebuke you. (Rebuke can be thought of as a quick wake up call of correction. Hey a car is coming, GET OUT OF THAT ROAD! That is a rebuke. Wake up, salvation is Here, if you don’t receive it and live, you may die without it and your children will not have had you showing them the way to anywhere of value, you’ll have gone and your seed may die eternally also, all because you wanted to be independent. That independence may cost you your soul and that of your children entrusted to you by God! That’s a rebuke) It saves lives.
If you willingly receive a rebuke, you’ll live and not die.

Daily Repetitive Verses:

Isaiah 58:12 You'll use the old rubble of past lives to build anew, rebuild the foundations from out of your past. You'll be known as those who can fix anything, restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate, make the community livable again. THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language