Utumishi Blog

Things really warming up. Lots of Bible. Lots of nitty gritty. Enjoying it more and more…

Some surprising things about wisdom from Proverbs 8:

• Wisdom is personal
• Wisdom is out-going – seeks us as before being sought
• Wisdom is delighting, delighted-in, loving, loved
• Wisdom is supremely valuable, the source of life and blessing
• Wisdom is prior to the world and creates the world – not a construct that arises from the world
• Wisdom comes through words – not so much from age or mystical experience

Some taboos challenged:

• It’s ok to grieve and cry   (even men – Job 3-31)
• It’s ok not to get married   (and to get married! How to get married)
• It’s ok to hustle   (take initiative and sell stuff – How to start a business)
• It’s ok to plant a church   (or not to – How to start a ministry)
• It’s ok to be ordinary   (Lessons from the life of Gladys Aylward)
• It’s ok to be Left Behind   (Matt. 24 Eschatology)

Pray for our final day today:

• That we would finish well and the apprentices would travel safely back to their placements encouraged and strengthened by the grace of Christ.
• For Sammy, Ken Kamau and myself – to teach and preach faithfully.
• For Romans 9, Job 38-42, and Ephesians 5 to really speak to us.