Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it glides down smoothly. In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.
Proverbs 23:31-32 TLV
Keep everything in its proper place: money, food, sex, medicine, approval, alcohol, tradition, politics...everything. All things are useful tools if maintained and used properly, but all things are also instruments of death and enslavement if misused.
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
Proverbs 16:8 ESV
It's hard to put a price on a clean conscience. It might seem at first that the riches make it worth the inner turmoil, but if you suppress your conscience long enough, you will either be utterly miserable or utterly wicked.
There's a chiasm in the #towerofbabel story that emphasizes the futility of man trying to live without God. Why was the Tower of Babel made with bricks instead of stone? Perhaps to emphasize man's creative power over God's. And maybe that's why the Altar must be made with uncut stones.
#noach
https://soilfromstone.blogspot.....com/2018/12/chiasm-
I forgot to add the Psalms/Proverbs reference to read last week. I've updated that comic if you would like to grab it, too.
https://thestraightandnarrow.cfw.me/comics/694
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