IAM challenging myself in another way, I have begun reading the Book of Proverbs – again, for I
do not know how many times now. And I have started today.
The
Book of Proverbs is good for advice, counsel and encouragement for everybody.
There
Wisdom is presented as a valuable quality that the reader must strive to
develop in life.
Interestingly,
in Proverbs 1:7 it says: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge:
but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Another
interesting verse is 1:5: A wise man/person will hear, and will increase
learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels.
King
Lemuel, the person writing this chapter, urges the young person to listen to
his/her guardians in 1:8: My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and
forsake not the law of thy mother.
Lemuel
also warns young people not to follow bad characters. He says in 1:10: My son,
if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
I
know the exercise of reading Proverbs (again) will be rewarding.
May you also
learn and take up the challenge.
You
know, you can be very bright but being intelligent is no guarantee that you
will succeed in life.
Wisdom
is the other thing … in fact, some say it is more valuable than learning any
other thing.
In
the Old Testament, as in Proverbs, wisdom and knowledge are used interchangeably,
meaning they are taken to be the same.
Someone
who forsakes wisdom is forsaking knowledge.
(There
are 31 chapters in Proverbs and I am reading one a day …)
Have
a nice week my friends.
Cheers.
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