Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today we tackle more of Solomon's Proverbs, and chapter 19 starts out with a lot of wisdom

on relationships, including our relationship with God. I'll open with a confession.

Beside 19.2 in my Bible, I've written TLC exclamation mark in all caps in the margin.

Those are my initials and my nickname, so it's just my way of trying to call my attention to the

fact that I struggle with this, particularly the second half of the verse.

The whole verse says,

desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.

I've told you before that one of my old roommates used to say I do things fast and wrong.

So when I read, whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way, that's got my name written all over it.

This is a reminder to me that I need to seek his guidance on things instead of just forging

ahead on my own. And the first half of the verse has a different level of beauty and truth to it.

It says, desire without knowledge is not good. If you were in a relationship with someone who said they loved

you but didn't want to know anything about you, wouldn't that seem really off to you? Wouldn't it

make you really skeptical about their so-called love? It breaks my heart to see this kind of thing in the

church, where we have a relationship with God that is driven only by emotion and that has no actual knowledge

of who God is. That's why I'm so glad we're in the word here. Every day that you open up your Bible

and put your eyes on who God says he is, you're displaying the kind of wisdom this verse calls us to.

Verse 3 describes a common occurrence, not just in the world at large, but even within the church.

It says, when a man's folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord.

Have you seen this happen? Or maybe this has even happened to you?

Often, when our sins lead to negative consequences, we blame God instead of ourselves.

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