Category: Proverbs

Read Proverbs 1:20-33

Wisdom has a bit of an attitude, don’t you think? And yet, she is wisdom. We shouldn’t question her or her motives. Was it helpful to see wisdom personified? I could almost hear wisdom saying, “I told you so.” Not that wisdom has that kind of a snarky tone to her message.

But wisdom does try to intervene and help us. There are all kinds of word pictures here to support that idea: wisdom shouts in the streets, in the public square, by the gate, etc. Wisdom even calls to us “so often” and reaches out. What happens? We ignore wisdom and try to do things our way.

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Read Proverbs 1:8-19

I was a rebellious youth who tried to appear “squeaky clean”. Looking back, I was really two different people. I guess that was my way of testing the waters. What path did I want to take? While I was a bit of a wild child doing things I shouldn’t, I was also a youth leader at church whom everyone thought was pretty special. There was conflict inside. Yet, I was pulling off the charade nicely, in both directions. Who was I really?

My parents were always looking out for my best interests. But I somehow felt “controlled,” so it was hard to want to obey. In fact, my mother warned me about a boy I liked. I should have listened. I married him and spent the next 15 years of my life in fear. As an abused woman, I watched my children suffer, and I pled to God over and over to be forgiven and free. If only I had listened to mom.

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