Help us to look to you in all we do for wisdom, guidance, and strength, as we face the challenges of the days ahead. Prayer: Father God, give us the humility to recognize that we don’t always have the answers. Verse 27 says: “Stop listening to instruction my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.”Īn athlete only gets better by listening to his coach. As Christians, we can get better, grow in our faith, and strengthen our relationship with God by embracing humility and heeding the words of Proverbs. Verse 20 says: “Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise.” If we recognize that being humble can help us grow in our knowledge of God and our relationship with Him, how much easier would it be to embrace that humility? For us humans, embracing humility, and putting ourselves second, is often a challenge. You get short concise sentences designed to convey an example of how to live according to true Godly wisdom.Īs I read Chapter 19, what jumps out at me is the idea of the modern-day meme of “I am second.” In all the “if this, then that” statements and couplets, it seems that most of the negative side of those sentences is someone putting themselves first, above others and above God or outside of His will. You’re almost always better off keeping your. You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth. You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.īut if you include God in the definition of a proverb, you don’t get funny Texas sayings. You can never put too much pork in your mouth as far as I’m concerned. If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening ones mouth and removing all doubt. What exactly is a proverb? My bible defines a proverb as a “short, concise sentence that conveys moral truth.” Being a Texan, if you leave God out of that definition, you might end up with things like:īetter to keep your mouth shut and seem a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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