For attaining wisdom and discipline;
for understanding words of insight

Proverbs 1:2

the subject for today is:

Wise up and live!

Let us again open the Bible and read some from it

Today from: Proverbs 1:1-19

Proverbs 1:1-19

¹The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

·        ²To know Wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;  ³To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;  ⁴To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

·        ⁵A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: ⁶To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

·        ⁷The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

·        ⁸My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: ⁹For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

·        ¹⁰My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. ¹¹If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:  ¹²Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:  ¹³We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:  ¹⁴Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: ¹⁵My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:  ¹⁶For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. ¹⁷Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.  ¹⁸And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.  ¹⁹So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Dear Friends,

We set out to explore some of the great and thrilling themes of the book of Proverbs. I have no hesitation in saying that, as far as practical matters are concerned, it has influenced my thinking and colored my judgments more than any other book of the Bible.

I shall never forget my pastor taking me aside one day and saying, "I am going to teach you to steal, to drink, to lie and to swear." Seeing my astonishment, he quickly went on to add:

·         "I want to teach you how to steal time out of every day to read something from the book of Proverbs.

·         And then I want to teach you how to drink from its clear, refreshing waters,

·         to lie on your bed at night and meditate on its great themes

·         and to swear that by the grace of God you will put into practice its wonderful teaching."

We now begin with the question: What is the purpose of Proverbs? Our text for today gives us the clue. Listen to how the Living Bible paraphrases it:

"He [Solomon] wrote them to teach his people how to live - how to act in every circumstance" (Prov.1:2). This then is what Proverbs is all about - wisdom for living.

Multitudes know how to make a living but they do not know how to live.

They know everything about life except how to live it.

I tell you, the more you understand the book of Proverbs, and the more you put its truths and principles into practice, the more effective will be your living. I guarantee it.

PRAYER:

O Father, help me come to grips with the wisdom that enables me not just to live, but to live abundantly. I want to know what I need to do as a person to get on in life. Through the ancient but inspired words of Proverbs teach me how. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

FURTHER STUDY:

Eccl.7:1-29; Ps.104:24; Prov.3:19

1.       What is God's creation built on?

2.       What does wisdom preserve?

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