The Eyes of My Heart

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Treasure every day. Remove sorrow from your heart, and put away pain from your flesh, because youth and the prime of life are fleeting. Ecclesiastes 11:10 Life is very short. Oftentimes, we get entangled in unnecessary sorrow that obscures our ability to enjoy it. Instead of looking at the bad around us, let’s look at…

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Suffering can produce wisdom. The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in a house of pleasure. Ecclesiastes 7:4 There are lessons in life that we can only learn through suffering. God is never the author of pain but He masterfully weaves the bad in our…

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What drives you? I saw that all labor and all skillful work is due to one person’s jealousy of another. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind. Ecclesiastes 4:4 Humans are competitive in nature. We have a strong tendency to compare ourselves to one another and it’s a fierce force that drives…

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Sorrow can be a good thing. For with much wisdom is much sorrow; as knowledge increases, grief increases. Ecclesiastes 1:18 We shy away from sorrow and turn our faces from grief. The more we know, the more we suffer in this world but how can this be encouraging? Sometimes God chooses our lives for a…

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Virtue is what matters. Who can find a wife of noble character? She is far more precious than jewels. Proverbs 31:10 Character is not what is praised today. Shallow beauty is. The more appealing to the eye, the more a woman receives admiration. Most men appreciate external assets in women but what gives real beauty…

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The secret of favor. The Lord shows favor to those who fear him, to his godly lovers who wait for his tender embrace. Psalm 147:11 (TPT) God wants us to respect Him. To respect means to honor, to fear. He also wants us to wait for His tender embrace. I love this translation! I often…