Well, today is the first day of the Proverbs Challenge…or, should I call it the Proverbial challenge? Anyhow, we have challenged the church to consider reading through the book of Proverbs two times by Easter. To make it easier you can join us by reading the corresponding chapter of Proverbs with the day of the week. Since today is the 8th of February we are to read Proverbs 8!

Today there was one particular verse that caught my attention. It was verse 19. It says…

“My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.”

The price of gold today bottomed out at a measly $1025.70/oz.  Not bad when you really think about some rock in the earth!  Most of us wouldn’t mind making a little extra cash by finding a large gold nugget in the backyard.  Furthermore, I can pretty much bet that most of us would stop everything that we are doing right now, except maybe reading the rest of this blog, if we knew there was a very large gold nugget just waiting to be unearthed in our backyard.  Why such the fuss?  I surmise its because we know that there will be a large ROI (return on our investment) for the little work necessary to uncover that very large gold nugget sitting in our backyard.

I find it interesting what the author, in this verse, is trying to get across to his audience.  There is a reminder in this verse that the work that God does in the life of a person and the fruit that this produces is far better than any gold.  With this in mind I want to leave you with a simple question…Do you look and long for God’s work in you as you would a gold nugget in your backyard?