The Value of Wisdom and Understanding
The Value of Wisdom and Understanding Proverbs 16:16 How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. Insight The voice of temptation. Anybody who makes it easy for us to disobey God certainly isn’t a friend. The offer they made …
My Plans, His Direction
My Plans, His Direction Proverbs 16:9 A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps. Insight This is a good description of God’s sovereign rule. It is an inscrutable mystery how God accomplishes his fixed purpose by free-willed agents. Man without his free will is a machine. …
Pleasing God
Pleasing God Proverbs 16:7 When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Insight I have wrestled with this proverb a great deal, and I have searched what other men have had to say on this. Do you mean to tell …
Your Commitment, His Response
Your Commitment, His Response Proverbs 16:3 Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established. Insight The word “commit” might be rendered “roll.” He who rolls his affairs over upon the Lord, will find Him ever ready to take charge of them all, and to carry them …
Our Plans, His Answer
Our Plans, His Answer Proverbs 16:1–2 The preparations of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirits. Insight Ever since the Fall it has been …
Humility Before Honor
Humility Before Honor VERSE Proverbs 15:33 The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom, and before honor is humility. Insight As the child of God realizes the presence of a holy God, he will be full of humility. Indeed, no Christian grace can exist without it. Every dispensation …
His Light Changes Our Lives
His Light Changes Our Lives Proverbs 15:30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and a good report makes the bones healthy. Insight The gospel of the glory of the blessed God is such a “good report.” “Faith cometh by hearing (by, a report), and hearing (or, the report) …
Think Before Speaking
Think Before Speaking Proverbs 15:28 The heart of the righteous studies how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours forth evil. Insight The man who walks in the fear of God will weigh his words, lest by a hasty utterance he dishonor his Lord and hinder where he …
Seek Wise Council
Seek Wise Council Proverbs 15:22 Without counsel, plans go awry, but in the multitude of counselors they are established. Insight Four times the Book of Proverbs focuses on the importance of getting advice from others in regard to one’s plans. 1 Application Proverbs 11:14 Where there is no counsel, the …
The Highway of the Upright
The Highway of the Upright Proverbs 15:19 The way of the lazy man is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the upright is a highway. Insight Difficulties abound in the mind of the slothful man. His way seems hedged up by thorns, and he has all manner …