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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 23:1-12

Why God wants me to work. I mean, why does God want me to work?

“Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom” (Proverbs 23:4).

Well, it makes sense to me that I should work hard to acquire wealth. But I’m supposed to turn away from my own wisdom.

So…why should I avoid wealth acquisition as my motivation for working?

“Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven” (Proverbs 23:5).

Material wealth is nothing. Like a sunset, its beauty is arresting but its durability is fleeting. Here for a moment; gone forever.

So what should be my purpose in labor?

[The Scriptures say in Proverbs 23:5 -- Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?]

from Proverbs 23:5