Category Archives: Proverbs

Reading:
Proverbs 8:33-36

How may I win God’s favor? Find wisdom.

“For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD” (Proverbs 8:35).

Is there anything that would cause me to turn from wisdom’s reproof?

When I am on the wrong track, wisdom will call after me to turn back toward her. Why would I ever choose not to respond correctly to that?

Stubbornness. Dullness of hearing. Rebellion. Carelessness. Those four are bad enough; there surely are other reasons. Here’s one more than really pricks my sensibilities: the messenger.

Yeah, the messenger. If I don’t like the one bearing the message of reproof, or if I don’t like his attitude or his hypocrisy, I too easily reject wisdom’s message. (But I don’t think of it that way, of course. Just like the picture below demonstrates!)

[The Scriptures say in Proverbs 8:33 -- Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not]
from Proverbs 8:33

Note: The above two paragraphs are the closing ones of something a little more extensive I wrote this morning: Profiting from Instruction.

Reading:
Proverbs 1:1-9, 20-23;
8:33-36

Here are some questions I took away from reading today’s passage (which is the Sunday School lesson for September 6, 2009):

  1. What profit can I earn from receiving instruction?
  2. Have I become so wise that I need not listen to another’s instruction?
  3. I have knowledge; on what foundation shall I build with it?
  4. What develops beauty in my character?
  5. Is there anything that would cause me to turn from wisdom’s reproof?
  6. How may I win God’s favor?

“…I will make known my words unto you” (23).

[The Scriptures say in Proverbs 1:22 -- How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?]
from Proverbs 1:22

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