Chapter 3: Trust in the Lord… Not your own
Wisdom
“Trust
in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In
all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” (Proverbs 3:5-6)
Do not
be wise in your own eyes. We need to trust the Lord and not our own
understanding of things. How much do we really know? Everyone claims to know
everything, yet we still fight over questions like the meaning of life. While
those who don’t believe or trust in God are fighting over those questions…
those who do believe in God and trust in him already have answers to those
questions.
“For
whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he
delighteth.” (Proverbs 3:12)
This is
like the “Don’t touch the stove, or it’ll burn you” A parent loves their children,
unfortunately sometimes the children must learn for themselves… they touch the
stove even though they were warned not too… and now they are hurting. God is
the same way, he lays out commandments and then when people break them they cry
out in pain. For example, God commands that we get married and refrain from
pre-marital sex, then people decide not to follow this commandment and we are
now left with teen mothers, single mothers, broken families and sexually transmitted
diseases.
Chapter 4: Wisdom
“Get
wisdom, get understanding; forget it not; neither let it decline…” (Proverbs
4:5)
“Wisdom
is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get
understanding” (Proverbs 4:7)
As a
father would instruct his kids, get as much knowledge as possible! Education is
so important, life skills, experiences all these things that cannot be given to
us… but they are the only thing that can be taken with us in the next life.
“Take fast hold of instruction… Enter not into the path of
the wicked…Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it…the path of the just is as
the shinning light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day… Keep thy
heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” (Proverbs
4:13-23)
We need to take instruction when
needed, listen to advice and respect those who go out of their way to give it
to us. Don’t go down the path of the wicked, but follow the path that shines
more and more daily. If we keep our heart clean, then we will know what is
right and wrong.
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