A Time for Silence
A Time for Silence Proverbs 27:2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips. Insight Praise is sweet music, but it never sounds well when it comes from your own mouth. If it comes from another person’s mouth, it is a …
The Disobedient Delay
The Disobedient Delay Proverbs 27:1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. Insight There is a philosophy of procrastination that is very familiar to all of us. It puts off until tomorrow what could be done today. It is not that …
It is Your Wood That is Burning
It is Your Wood That is Burning Proverbs 26:20–21 Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; And where there is no talebearer, strife ceases. As charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindle strife. Insight Bitterness is repeatedly stirred up …
Its Not Your Fight
Its Not Your Fight Proverbs 26:17 He who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a dog by the ears. Insight If we want to honor God in our Christian walk, we must take time at every step for prayer and for …
Hopeless Foolishness
Hopeless Foolishness Proverbs 26:12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Insight Arrogant self-assumption and fancied superiority to all instruction place a man hopelessly beyond the reach of help. The out-and-out fool, who does not pretend to …
Hypocrisy Illustrated
Hypocrisy Illustrated Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to his own vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. Insight It is repulsive and sickening even to think of this. This is the viewpoint that Peter presents to us concerning the hypocrite: “But it is happened unto them according to the …
Sometimes…No Answer is the Best Answer
Sometimes…No Answer is the Best Answer Proverbs 26:4–5 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. Insight I received a letter from a brilliant man who had some …
Living a Spirit Controlled Life
Living a Spirit Controlled Life Proverbs 25:28 Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls. Insight Self-control is ever important. This is the temperance of the New Testament. Paul made it his object to keep his body under, that thus he might …
Glorify Him, Not Yourself
Glorify Him, Not Yourself Proverbs 25:27 It is not good to eat much honey; So to seek one’s own glory is not glory. Insight We know honey is good, in moderation. It is not good to eat too much honey. A man’s own name and reputation is honey to him. …
We Need His Grace
We Need His Grace Proverbs 25:26 A righteous man who falters before the wicked is like a murky spring and a polluted well. Insight This is the comparison he makes with a righteous man, a man who has stood for truth, who finally bows before the wicked. How many times …