By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches (Proverbs 24:3). As I write this, I’m sitting at my daughter’s kitchen counter. The house is quiet; no one else is awake. I look around at the sweet home two …
Tag: Wisdom
Advice For A Successful Life
Proverbs 22 is another list of advice and admonition from a father to his son. Solomon had experienced all that life had to offer – both the good and the bad (read Ecclesiastes). As all good parents do, he urges his son to learn from his experience, and avoid the heartache and pitfalls of poor …
Two Invitations
Proverbs 9 begins with an invitation from wisdom (verses 1-6) and ends with an invitation from folly (verses 13-18). This pattern of comparing and contrasting wisdom and folly will continue throughout the book. And just in case we need clarification, folly always refers to human wisdom, which our enemy, Satan, loves to tell us is …
The Eternal Nature Of God’s Wisdom
A quote attributed to George Orwell goes like this: Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. That’s a pretty accurate observation of human nature. As teenagers approach adulthood, they often view their parents’ wisdom as old-fashioned and outdated. …
Debt And Other Things To Avoid
I love the way people spoke and wrote years ago when we weren’t so concerned about being politically correct or tempering our words so that no one is offended. A few years ago, I ran across the Bible commentary of Matthew Henry while looking up Greek and Hebrew words on the BlueLetterBible.org website. He holds …
The Way Of The Word 