Category Archives: Proverbs

Reading:
Proverbs 14:1-12

“Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge” (7).

I think that’s a difficult thing to do in some circumstances.

“I’m sorry to appear rude by leaving while this conversation is in progress,” is something I don’t ever recall saying. (Have you?)

Maybe there’s a better way.

So what’s a person to do when someone else’s word or subject or attitude choices become sub-Christian?

That verse says leave.

What’s your perspective?

[He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD (Proverbs 14:2)]
from Proverbs 14:2

A little bit more from Proverbs 14: Tragically Wrong

Reading:
Proverbs 13:13-35

That’s what I want!

I don’t want to be stubborn.

Or close-minded.

Or arrogant.

Or hard.

Or insensitive.

Or unapproachable.

Or incorrigible.

Or defensive.

Or self-justifying.

Do you?

So how do you and I respond to instruction and reproof?

How do we take correction and discipline?

“Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured” (18).

Like I said, I want an open, tender heart…toward instruction…and toward reproof.

So when you see me in the wrong, please correct me.

Tell me the right way to be and the right way to live.

Do not let me continue in my error!

[A faithful ambassador is health (Proverbs 13:17)]
from Proverbs 13:17

A little bit more from Proverbs 13: What Is Your Lot?