In this episode, I’m taking you back to a moment when God used Proverbs 31 in an unexpected way. Like many of us, I’ve read Proverbs 31 for years as a blueprint for virtuous womanhood — but one day, sitting with verses 1 through 9, I saw something deeper.

King Lemuel’s mother wasn’t just teaching him what kind of woman to look for — she was teaching him how to live righteously, with integrity and self-control. As a mother to a son myself, I felt deeply convicted: Am I becoming the example I’d want my son to follow?

It was in that moment that God revealed the hidden sins in my own heart — not the obvious ones we preach about like fornication, porn, smoking, or cussing — but the quiet, respectable sins we ignore: pride, envy, gossip, laziness, gluttony, unforgiveness.

These are the sins that won’t get you side-eyed at chu ...