The Path We Follow to Destruction

I posted the other day about Sudden Destruction.
Proverbs 29:1 "He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." 
Sometimes we are so shocked by things we learn about a fellow Christian, but we know that none of us are immune to sin...
But how could it have happened???

This article tells The Path We Follow to Destruction.

Root: discontent

As I was reading this, I was thinking, I am pretty content with my life... then I realized that sometimes with my husband I am not. I get aggravated at certain things. And I realized I do the same with my kids.
We all have different personalities, and when we live together, personalities are bound to clash now and then. But I need to be content and overlook some things. Be more agreeable rather than getting aggravated at certain tendencies (not talking about disobedience).
Just mainly being discontent with who they are.

Some friends and I recently talked about reading verses like Proverbs 29:1, and passing over verses like this, thinking they were for some really bad person.
But when I first read the above article, I was doing just what we had talked about!
Passing over looking at ME and thinking this must be for someone else.
We hear certain things all our lives, and come to think of certain verses and phrases from the preacher as applying to someone else.
But God wants our heart. In his eyes, all sin is sin. And it only takes a little for God to not truly have our heart. (It is the little foxes that spoil the vine. - Song of Solomon 2:15)
I heard an illustration once about a little sin. "Would you drink a glass of water that someone had spit in? It's only a little spit..."
When we compare ourselves to others, we think we're not nearly as bad, right? But compared to God's holiness... not so good after all.

It's amazing after having read Proverbs over and over (once a month, each chapter on its corresponding date), I keep finding new things, or old things that apply differently to a current situation. Either in life, or maybe an attitude.

I love Proverbs!  So like a mirror.

sMiLeS,