Proverbs 1
The book is designed to help attain wisdom & discipline, to give us words of insight, to help acquire a disciplined & prudent life, to do what is right & just, to bring knowledge & discretion, to help us on the road to knowledge.
We can begin right by fearing the Lord - this is the beginning of knowledge.
If we despise wisdom and discipline, we are on the road to folly.
v11-14 Attractions of the enticing talk:
The opportunity to swallow someone else whole
To get their valuable things & plunder them
To share the common purse
v20-32 The essence of the deplored outlook:
Simple ways, mockery and rejection of knowledge. We are called to love knowledge, wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 2-3
In attaining wisdom, accept the words and store up the commands, turn your ear to wisdom, apply your heart to understanding. Call out and cry out for understanding - look and search for it. God gives wisdom and it will come to you if you ask. It will save you. It brings blessings and is more profitable than silver and better returns than gold, it brings more preciousness than rubies. It was by wisdom that God laid the earth's foundations. The wise inherit honour.
God disciplines those He loves - so we must remember that and not despise His teaching of us. He does it for our good.
Proverbs 4-5
Look after your heart, desire wisdom and flee from adultery.
4v23-27
Heart - guard it
Lips - keep them free of perversity & corruption
Eyes - look straight ahead
Feet - walk on level paths
Otherwise, you will walk in darkness, giving your best strength to others, and come to disappointment at the end of your life. Only God sees what you are really like - live to please Him alone.
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