A Wise Builder | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | June 7, 2021
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🗓️ 7 June 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.0 | Today's reading titled A Wise Builder was written by Linda Washington. |
| 0:16.0 | Sojourner Truth, whose birth name was Isabella Bomfrey, was born a slave in 1797 in Esipus, New York. |
| 0:26.9 | Though nearly all her children were sold as slaves, she escaped to freedom in 1826 with one daughter |
| 0:36.1 | and lived with a family who paid the money for her freedom. Instead of allowing |
| 0:42.1 | an unjust system to keep her family apart, she took legal action to regain her small son, Peter, |
| 0:51.0 | an amazing feat for an African-American woman in that day. Knowing she couldn't raise her |
| 0:58.1 | children without God's help, she became a believer in Christ and later changed her name to |
| 1:04.7 | Sojourner Truth to show that her life was built on the foundation of God's truth. |
| 1:12.0 | King Solomon, the writer of Proverbs 14, declares, |
| 1:16.7 | the wise woman builds her house. |
| 1:20.7 | In contrast, one without wisdom, tears hers down. |
| 1:25.9 | This building metaphor shows the wisdom God provides to those willing to listen. |
| 1:32.1 | How does one build a house with wisdom by saying only what is helpful for building others up? |
| 1:40.0 | How does one tear down? Proverbs 14 gives the answer, |
| 1:44.7 | A fool's mouth lashes out with pride. |
| 1:50.1 | Sojourner had a secure fortress in a turbulent time, |
| 1:55.5 | thanks to the wisdom of God. |
| 1:58.4 | You may never have to rescue your children from an injustice, but you can build your |
| 2:04.5 | house on the same foundation, Sojourner did, the wisdom of God. |
| 2:16.2 | Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Proverbs 14, verses 1 through 3, 26 through 27, and verse 33. |
| 2:26.5 | The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands, the foolish one tears hers down. |
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