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Understanding the buyer


When I found this scripture in the Bible, I started laughing so hard.  It was there, waiting on me to become a professional real estate agent, so I would actually understand it.



“It’s no good, it’s no good!” says the buyer; then off he goes to boast about his purchase.” Proverbs 20:14 (NIV).



“The buyer haggles over the price, saying, “It’s worthless,” then brags about getting a bargain!” (NLT).



Hilarious.  All of my real estate agents know what I’m talking about.  We have buyers like this.  We have seen this first hand. 



This morning I grabbed my Bible, looking for it’s truths to touch my life and help me along my day, and I found this.  It just goes to show that when people start saying that the Bible is outdated and doesn’t deal with the issues of today.  Or when they say they can’t get specifics, everything is generalities and we have to come up with our own understanding.  This is how God responds to that!  He is as relevant as the latest tweet; more in tuned with the economy than the politicians; and more up-to-date than the latest news release.



He wrote the beginning and he has already designed the end.  He is not far off, unable to understand the little things we go through.  He wants us to know that he gets it.  He gets it so much that the Lord waited for just the right moment in my life and my business to reveal a truth that I wouldn’t have understood until now.  Now tell me that’s not a God who’s into the details. 

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