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Reading:

Proverbs 3

Our next Sunday School lesson comes from Proverbs three. Here are seven introductory questions to chew:

  1. Which of wisdom’s benefits are summarized in this passage?
  2. What am I doing to hang on to mercy and truth?
  3. Where does God fit in my (conscious) life?
  4. Has God been honored by and with the essentials and the premiums in my life?
  5. Is wisdom worth so much to me that I find blessing in God’s correction?
  6. Who around me has found me pleasant of way and peaceable in disposition?
  7. Wisdom — a tree of life: How’s that to work out in my life?

“Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding” (13).

[The Scriptures say in Proverbs 3:17 -- Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace]

from Proverbs 3:17

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.