continuing from yesterday...
Now Playing: I was made to love you- Toby Mac
Topic: quotations (Scripture)
I'm going to simplify my entries so that I can have these blog posts of mine be more focused, concise and to the point.

I'll be writing separate entries during the day for each reading that I want to type out
^{(I have placed the links to the Daily Mass Readings and the "Thought of the Day" Scripture quotes provided by Spirit FM in the sidebar on the right side under the "My Church" title since that is quite a lot for me to type out- I will still be reading and reacting to those passages... )}

also, I am still internally debating whether or not I should post about my personal gatherings that I receive from these Scriptures (it is hard enough for me just to post these in the first place, but I am being reminded of and learning things through this study...)


Anyway, here is what I read in the second chapter of Proverbs today*:

My child, if you accept my words
and treasure up my commandments within you,
making you ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding;

if you indeed cry out for insight,
and raise your voice for understanding;

if you seek it like silver,
and search for it as for hidden treasures-

the you will undertand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.

For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come[s] knowledge and understanding;

he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;

he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly,
guarding the paths of justice
and preserving the way of his faithful ones.

Then you will undertand righteousness and justice
and equity, every good path;

for wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasnt to your soul;
prudence will watch over you; and understanding will guard you.

It will save you from the way of evil,
from those who speak perversely,
who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;
those whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.


You will be saved from the loose woman,
from the adulteress with her smooth words,

who forsakes the parner of her youth and forgets her sacred covenant;
for her way leads down to death, and her paths to the shades
-those who go to her never come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.

Therefore walk in the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the just.
For the upright will abide in the land, and the innocent will remain in it;
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

The part of today's reading that really stood out to me was the part that says that the one who stores up and lives by these teachings will be "saved from the loose woman" -I wish that people would all be [more] inclined to wisdom so that the tragedy of unfaithfulness would end... also, when a good man is corrupted by a vulgar woman he loses so much of his virtue and the qualities that made him really wonderful in the first place... <sub>-sigh-



*actually, I was reading more than this since it was so good, I started reading the third chapter as well but then I stopped since I wanted to get to Mass... *got there on time- not early*</sub>