Showing posts with label hope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hope. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Pr. 24: Proverbs for Living

Proverbs 24:21-22 "Fear the LORD and the king, my son, and do not join with the rebellious, for those two will send sudden destruction upon them, and who knows what calamities they can bring?"

Don't hang out with jerks. Not only are they jerks to you, but others. And others see you and jerks. (v. 1-2)

Wisdom builds a house.
Understanding establishes a house.
Knowledge fills a house with treasures.

Wisdom begets understanding, understanding begets knowledge, knowledge begets strength. (v. 3-6)

Step in and help if someone is being led to death. Come on! Not doing something is still doing something. (v. 11-12)

Honey is sweet to the taste, as wisdom is sweet to the soul. (v. 13)

The righteous man may fall, but he is restored. Not so for the wicked. (blamelessness) (v. 16)

Gloating over a fallen enemy is discouraged. Who gave you victory? And why be a jerk, why drive a deeper wedge between you and your enemy? (v. 17-18)

Don't worry about the evil, who worry and don't have the hope you have. (v. 19)

Lance Ito. (v. 24)

Tit-for-tat revenge is not your place. (v. 29)

Poverty is a result of laziness. (v. 30-34)

Saturday, August 01, 2009

Pr. 13: Proverbs for Living

Proverbs 13:6 "Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner. "

So if you don't go running your mouth like an idiot, people will be less intent on killing you. (v. 3)

Along with great wealth comes the chance you'll be kidnapped for ransom. Is this a warning that there may be unintended consequences for the things we dream of? (v. 8)

Pride is incongruous with unity. (v. 10)

A man is more apt to take care of the money he earns honestly than dishonestly. (v. 11)

Verse 12 is like this. "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. "
Don't stop hoping, your heart will thank you. You have to know things will get better. Longings can't be fulfilled if you don't have them. (See v. 19)

It is good to leave an inheritance. Who can take it with him? (v. 22) The sinner's wealth is stored up for the righteous? Someone will get a sinner's wealth, and it's not ultimately that sinner.

Verse 23 is heartbreaking, a poor man's field may produce abundant wealth, but injustice sweeps it away? Is this wealth too sudden, and therefore unmanageable? Is sudden wealth swindled away?

I imagine it may be hard to swat your kid when they do something bad, brainless or rude, but discipline is born out of love. If you hate your kid, you'll let them run amok. (v. 24)