Tag Archives: way of righteousness

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?

Reading:
Proverbs 13:1-12

What’s my attitude toward instructions?

If I can figure out the matter on my own, do I need to be instructed?

I suppose it depends on what “the matter” is. If it has to do with operating our push mower, I think I can do it without instructions. But if it has to do with flying our radio controlled helicopter, I’d better check the instructions first.

Fine. But what is my overall attitude toward being told?

And what attitude have my children grown up with?

“A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke” (1).

Rebuke. Oh my. Now there’s another can of worms coming home to roost.

I must keep working at having a heart tender and receptive toward both instruction and rebuke.

I must also keep working at having a heart willing enough and tender enough to give both instruction and rebuke.

[Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way (Proverbs 13:6)]
from Proverbs 13:6

A little bit more from Proverbs 13: xx