Category Archives: Proverbs

Reading:

Proverbs 30:1-10

To have no exposure to wisdom nor to knowledge of God — wow! 😯

Or maybe that should read — wow! 😥

“I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy” (Proverbs 30:3).

Though I haven’t learned it all nor known it all, I am sooooo grateful to have learned it and known it.

What a privileged man I am, to have learned wisdom and to have received the knowledge of the Holy!

Thank you, Lord.

And that gratefulness extends to my parents as well as to my other instructors.

For that privilege, I have a huge debt to repay, a precious treasure to share with others, a wealth of knowledge to pass along.

Yet so many undervalue their own privilege; others despise it. Will they awaken soon enough? Will their value system change in time?

I hope so!

[The Scriptures say in Proverbs 30:8 -- Give me neither poverty nor riches]

from Proverbs 30:8

Reading:

Proverbs 5:15-18; 6:23-35

Whether or not I want to safeguard my own moral purity, God wants me to.

So He provides me with instructions and commandments designed to keep me away from any woman not my wife.

“Drink waters out of thine own cistern” (Proverbs 5:15). If she isn’t mine, I shouldn’t take from her any satisfaction of any sexual need or desire.

“Rejoice with the wife of thy youth” (Proverbs 5:18). If she isn’t my wife, she isn’t mine to enjoy in any sensual way.

“For the commandment is a lamp…To keep thee from…a strange woman” (Proverbs 6:23,24). When I focus on and live by God’s ways and instructions, no other woman will draw me away from my wife.

“Lust not after her beauty in thine heart” (Proverbs 6:25). Just because she is attractive in body or character is no reason to desire her for myself.

“But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul” (Proverbs 6:32). No pleasure and no person is worth that price!

[The Scriptures say in Proverbs 6:23 -- To keep thee...from the flattery of the tongue of a strange....]

from Proverbs 6:23