“If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts know to you” Proverbs 1:23

I’ve been asking God to mature me so I thought proverbs was a good place to start. This scripture stood out to me. So often I pray show me your heart and I desire to know what he is thinking, but he says he will do these things for those that respond to his rebuke. I think sometimes God’s rebuke is easily missed, it can come through circumstances, a word at church or from just talking to a friend, just a gentle nudge in my heart. If I learn to respond to that nudge in my heart, then he will pour his heart to me. It’s say he takes the upright into his confidence. I know that’s where I want to be in his confidence, but if I want this I’ve got to let him rebuke me-discipline me. I think this is what I’m learning that I have to let him take me on his path, because that is the one that will lead to life.

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