bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Then you will win favor and a good name
in the sight of God and man.
Many times going through Proverbs can feel legalistic. I can come up with a list of do's and don'ts real easily. I have heard others who start to feel this way too, but this verse just broke all that down for me.
Faithfulness seems easy for me to understand and observe. It's the actions of my daily life. It's taking the instructions given in the word and applying it, living it out. But this verse also says not to forget about love. I think the two must go hand in hand. If I grow in love, I grow in God, and this in turn will grow me in faithfulness.
Proverbs isn't about just following the rules. I think it is more like guidance about how our lives ought to be lived out we grow in Christ and become more like Him. Relationship with God is not to be forgotten in any of this because love is not to be forgotten.
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