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 Today's Thankful in All Things   verse is Psalm 119:71  "It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes." ESV Earlier today as I scrolled Facebook while waiting for my doctor to log onto my Telehealth appointment, there was a post that caught my attention by Ben Bennet  that used several slides to point out the different types of people often mentioned in Proverbs, and how by categorizing people by these three characteristics, we will know how to engage.  But what if we also took a look at ourselves and assessed how often we fall into these same categories.  The three descriptors he used are: the wise, the foolish and the wicked. It was the verse from his slide on the foolish person that I thought of alongside my verse in Psalm 119 today.   This led me to go back to the book of Proverbs and look at some definitions I had written in the margins for the three different people listed in the beginning of the 1:21 says,...

  Today's "Thankful in all things" (pinned on my page) verse is Job 1:20-22 "Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped, saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.” In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing." This is what Job proclaimed right after losing all the things he had spent his life working to achieve. The culmination of his life's ambition, goals, and even his future legacy, in the death of all his children. All that remained was his home, his unbelieving wife, and a handful of servants. Job is one of my favorite books. I comprehend it best whenever reading it in the NLT or even the NiRV. After losing all of that, then his health is attacked. He has to endure all this internal suffering, (because even whenever our faith is great, even whenever we view God as supreme and sovereign, ...