Modern Day Proverbs

I would really like to hear any modern proverbs, truisms, etc. that you may have.  Here are some that I’ve picked up over the years:

Hold loosely to the prosperity and the pain.

Hurting people hurt people.

We’re all just a little bit pitiful.

Speak when you have something to say, not when you have to say something.

…and some old favorites that I’m finding to be true:

Truth is stranger than fiction.

If it seems to good to be true, it probably is.

…Share yours!

Praise samples

I like to come across places in the Bible where the Spirit of God comes over people, and they begin to praise God for His greatness, His goodness, His sovereignty, and His supremacy.  Here are some samples:

He is the Rock, His work is perfect: for all His ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He.  There is no god with Him: He kills, and He makes alive; He wounds, and He heals: neither is there any that can deliver out of His hand.  For He lifts up His hand to heaven and says, ‘I live forever’.  We have heard of Him with the hearing of the ear: but when our eyes see Him, we abhor ourselves and repent in dust and ashes.  The most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever He will.  And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and He does according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and no one can stop His hand, or ask Him what He’s doing.  My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my saviour.  He that is mighty has done to me great things, and holy is His Name.  His mercy is on them that fear Him from generation to generation.  He has shown strength with His arm and scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.  He has put down the mighty and exalted them of low degree.  He has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty.  He can do everything, and no thought can be hidden from Him.    Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!  For who has known the mind of the Lord?  or who has been His counselor?  Or who has first given to Him, and looked to receive it back.  For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to Whom be glory for ever. Amen

Read the Word

Deut 17:14-20

Before it ever ocurred to the Israelites to have a king, God provided instructions on how a king should act.  He should not multiply to himself horses, wives, silver or gold.  And he should write a copy of God’s law and read from it all the days of his life.

What a great example for Christians (we are, after all kings and priests unto our God).  Even if we just read a little of the Bible every day, we’re still in His word, and we can look forward to the following blessings described in Deuteronomy:

We’ll learn to fear God and keep His statutes.

We will have a humble spirit.

God will keep us from taking the wrong path.

God will continue to bless us and our children.