Cultivating Noble Friendships

My Enemy and I

For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.

Reading:

“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver” (Proverbs 25:11).

As a noble friend…

Speak words that fit…and speak them fittingly (Proverbs 25:11).
Give good value with your reproof (Proverbs 25:12).
Keep the length and frequence of your visits well timed (Proverbs 25:17).
Be faithful to a trust (Proverbs 25:19).
Fit the occasion (Proverbs 25:20).
Be a joy to be with (Proverbs 25:24).

from Proverbs 25:13

Reading:

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!

from Proverbs 30:8