Chase Recovery Like You Chased The High | Proverbs 2

We would drive through a blizzard to get high. Why won't we drive 10 minutes to a meeting to get well? 🌨️🛑

In active addiction, we were the hardest working people on the planet. We didn't take "no" for an answer. We hustled. We hunted. We made it happen.

But then we get sober, and suddenly we’re... waiting. We wait for the obsession to lift. We wait to feel better.

Day 2 of "A Proverb A Day Keeps The Police Away" is a wake-up call. In Proverbs Chapter 2, Solomon tells us that Insight and Wisdom aren't going to fall into our laps. We have to dig for them like "prospectors panning for gold." ⛏️💰

Today’s Street Smarts from Proverbs 2:

1️⃣ Hustle for Healing: Apply that same "do whatever it takes" energy to your recovery.

2️⃣ Get a Bodyguard: Verse 7 says God is a "personal bodyguard" to the candid and sincere. Honesty is your protection.

3️⃣ Spot the Liars: The "smooth talkers" can't survive without a lie to lean on. Don't let them lean on you.

Watch the full breakdown below. Let’s get to work. 👇

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Episode Transcript

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We all know how to hustlein active addiction.

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We were the hardest workingpeople on the planet.
We would drive through a blizzard,trade our best electronics,
and stay up for like three daysstraight just to get what we needed.
We didn't wait for it to come to us.
We hunted it down.
Welcome back to day two of a proverb
a day keeps the police away.

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Yesterday in chapter one,we talked about listening.
Today in chapter two, solomon tells usto stop being passive and start hunting.
He says, if you wanna stay sober and safe,you have to chase recovery with the same
intensity that you used to chase the high.
Solomon starts here by tellingus exactly how hard we need to

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work for this peace of mind.
Check this out.
Here in Proverbs chapter two.
Good friend, take to heartwhat I'm telling you.
Collect my counsels andguard them with your life.
Tune your ears to the world of wisdom.
Set your heart on a life of understanding.
That's right.
If you make insight your priority andwon't take no for an answer, searching

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for it like a prospector panning for goldlike an adventurer on a treasure hunt.
Believe me, before you know it,the fear of God will be yours.
You'll have come uponthe knowledge of God.
I love that image, like aprospector panning for gold.
You know, a lot of us get intorecovery and we just sit around

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waiting for a miracle to happen.
We wait for the obsession to lift.
We wait to feel better.
But this is saying don't wait.
Start digging if you want insight,if you wanna know how to live without
the chaos in your life, you haveto treat it like buried treasure.
You have to read the books, hit themeetings, work the steps, like your

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life depends on it, because it does.
You didn't take no for an answer whenyou were using, so don't take no for
an answer now that you're healing.
All right, let's jumpback in here to verse six.
God gives out wisdom for free.
Is plain spoken inknowledge and understanding.
He's a rich mine of commonsense for those who live well.

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A personal bodyguard tothe candid and sincere.
He keeps his eye on all who livehonestly and pays special attention
to his loyally committed ones.
So now you can pick outwhat's true and fair.
Find all the good trails.
Lady Wisdom will be your close friend andbrother knowledge your pleasant companion.

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And here is the payoff.
If you do the work,you get the protection.
A personal bodyguard in thestreets costs a lot of money in
the kingdom, it costs you honesty.
it says he is a bodyguard to the candidand sincere, when we are lying and hiding

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and sneaking around, we are unprotected.
We are out there on our own.
But the second we start to get honest withourselves, with God, and with our circle
of people around us, we get back up.
Living Honest is the best insurancepolicy that you can buy against a relapse.
Finally, chapter two warns us aboutthe people who try to drag us off

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of this new path that we're on.
Good sense will scout ahead for danger.
Insight will keep an eye out for you.
They'll keep you from making wrongturns or following the bad directions
of those who are lost themselves andcan't tell a trail from a tumbleweed.
These losers who make a game of evil andthrow parties to celebrate perversity

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traveling paths that go nowhere wanderingin a maze of detours and dead ends.
Wise friends will rescueyou from the temptress.
That smooth talking seductress whois faithless to the husband that she
married years ago, never gave a secondthought to her promises before God.
Her whole way of life is doomed.

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Every step she takesbrings her closer to hell.
No one who joins her companyever comes back, ever sets foot
on the path to real living.
So join the company of good men and women.
Keep your feet on thetried and true paths.
It's the men who walk straightwho will settle this land.

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The women with integrity who will lasthere, the corrupt will lose their lives.
The dishonest will be gone for good.
We have all met thesepeople, the smooth talkers.
They tell you that just one won't hurt.
They tell you that you're boring now.
They tell you that recovery is a scam.

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Solomon says they can't survive withouta lie To lean on that is profound.
Their entire reality is built on lies.
When you have wisdom, you get x-rayvision, you stop seeing them as fun
friends, and you start seeing themas people that are trapped in a lie.
You don't hate them, but youdefinitely don't follow them.

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So what's the street smarttakeaway from chapter two?
Number one, hustle for yourhealing chase Sobriety as hard
as you chased the addiction.
Number two, get honest because honesty iswhat activates your spiritual bodyguard.
And number three, ignore the smooth talk.
If someone needs a lie to leanon, don't let 'em lean on you.

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So thanks for following along today.
I'll see you tomorrow for daythree, we are gonna be talking
about first things first.
And if you're digging for gold today,drop a heart down in the comments.
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