Proverbs 5#write31days

I thought this e-card was funny.  Well maybe because I just ate a couple of leftover broken cookies that I was putting in the freezer for our next Bloom conference.  I just kept eating the broken pieces, because well, if the pieces are broken it doesn’t equal a whole cookie right!!!

Honestly Proverbs 5 was a bit hard for me to figure out what to write about.

There are some stern warnings from a father to a son about guarding himself from adultery.  The reminders that one bad choice can bring you to utter ruin.

But the end of Proverbs 5:23 is what stuck out to me.
He dies from lack of discipline and because of his great folly He is led astray.

Whew. Those are some strong words.   I don’t know about you but I struggle with discipline in my life.  Sometimes (or more than sometimes) I want to take the easy road.     Even the word discipline is hard for my free spirit out of the box thinking.

But I do not want to be led astray by “great folly”.   I want to walk in the path of wisdom that is talked about all through Proverbs.  I want my soul to live free because I am walking in the discipline God has set forth for my protection and freedom.

So for each one of us this may look different.   But I want to seek the Lord and ask Him, what discipline do you want me to implement in my life.

I am thinking I lately have been spending to much time on social media.  Not that social media is at all a bad thing– but I don’t want it  to be a consuming thing.  I don’t want to be so undisciplined in my use of it that I miss what God is doing in my real life now.  I want His voice to be the first one that I listen for in the morning when I wake up instead of automatically reaching for my phone.  

What about you?  What discipline could God be wanting you to implement so your soul can live?