Scripture Devotion
Not above criticism — above reproach. The charge doesn't stick because the life doesn't match it.
“The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.”
Reflection
Proverbs says even a king's heart runs in a channel God has cut — the most powerful man in the land, steered like irrigation water. And in the same morning's reading, Paul lays out the overseer's requirement: blameless, one who rules his own house well. Both passages land on the same ground. The man God trusts with public weight is the one whose private hours would survive the light. Before the day asks anything of you, ask whether the unwatched version of you matches the watched one. That's where the watchman is actually made.