Day 30 - Don't imagine yourself to be quite presentable when you haven't had a bath in weeks.

It's quite hard to picture this but it has been 30 days I've been reading a chapter every day and blogging about it. Tomorrow is the last day and today's chapter is not less better than any of the previous ones. This chapter touches on a lot of topics but for the first one comes to my mind how this book started "Start with God—the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning." Proverbs 1 MSG

I have to share this whole section with you:

The Words of Agur Ben Yakeh

God? Who Needs Him?

^1-2 The skeptic swore, "There is no God! No God!—I can do anything I want!
I'm more animal than human;
so-called human intelligence escapes me.

^3-4 "I flunked 'wisdom.'
I see no evidence of a holy God.
Has anyone ever seen Anyone
climb into Heaven and take charge?
grab the winds and control them?
gather the rains in his bucket?
stake out the ends of the earth?
Just tell me his name, tell me the names of his sons.
Come on now—tell me!"

^5-6 The believer replied, "Every promise of God proves true;
he protects everyone who runs to him for help.
So don't second-guess him;
he might take you to task and show up your lies."

^7-9 And then he prayed, "God, I'm asking for two things
before I die; don't refuse me—
Banish lies from my lips
and liars from my presence.
Give me enough food to live on,
neither too much nor too little.
If I'm too full, I might get independent,
saying, 'God? Who needs him?'
If I'm poor, I might steal
and dishonor the name of my God."

I have to specifically comment on verses 5-6. I have no other way to express my faith in God, the God the Bible talks about, but as it has become something personal to me. I have taken "steps of faith", I have trusted God to come through for me in key areas of my life like jobs and this opportunity of education abroad I am experiencing now, and he has proved to be faithful. How? We'll have to talk more about it. You just have to take the first step and decide to start following God, like Jesus said to his candidate disciples "follow me". Once you start following God consciously then he'll reveal more of himself to you. Why would he do other wise? Does he needs us? haha. So in the end I believe, like Salomon and Agur -the guy wrote this chapter- say: wisdoms starts recognizing there's a God.

Here are more awesome sayings from Agur:

Don't blow the whistle on your fellow workers
behind their backs;
They'll accuse you of being underhanded,
and then you'll be the guilty one!

Don't curse your father
or fail to bless your mother.

Don't imagine yourself to be quite presentable
when you haven't had a bath in weeks.

Don't be stuck-up
and think you're better than everyone else.