Proverbs Devotion – November 24 2013
Proverbs devotions offer tips and reminders for how you can live your abundant life one little bit at a time.
“Prepare your outside work, make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterward build your house.” (NKJV) Proverbs 24:27
I told my son to get his feet off the couch. As the words were coming out of my mouth, words that I have said to him a zillion times, I realized that my own feet were propped on the coffee table.
My house – the focus and journey of those living in and around me – are built on what I do as much as what I say. If my actions line up against my words, then my actions will win. To make an impact – to make a difference in how my home is built – I have to get things right in my own actions. I have to prepare my outside and make fit the field where I plant my words so that the fruit that grows will be those that I desire.
To make a difference I have to be a difference.
Proverbs Devotion Points to Different
How do you prepare your field?
For me, preparing my field meant I had to show my children the better way.
Do what you say
My actions will speak louder than words. When I would get up and do something, then usually others would get up and do something. Even if they didn’t do it, at least what I did was done.
Speak Affirmation
If I am only complaining about what needs to be done, then complaints are all they hear or expect. I have to tell them and then trust they will do what needs to be done . . . and accept their way. And then provide words of affirmation for what they do – no matter how their way makes it look.
Count the Cost
Do all that you know to do. Determine what else you need to do. Map out what it will take to get it done – in time, energy, and focus. If you don’t know what it’s going to cost, then you won’t know how to make a plan to get it done.
Line upon line, precept upon precept, one step at a time. You set your field by doing what you way. You make the way by speaking affirmations (for you and for others). And you count the cost in order to make a plan.
Proverbs devotions are a great way to remember how to get id done.
