Proverbs 1:20-22,32-2:5
– Out in the open wisdom calls aloud,
she raises her voice in the public square; on top of the wall she cries out, at the city gate she
makes her speech: “How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long
will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?...For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the
complacency of fools will destroy them; but whoever listens to me will live in
safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.” My son, if you accept my
words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and
applying your heart to understanding—indeed, if you call out for insight and
cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search
for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
Isaiah
55:3 – Give ear and
come to me; listen, that you may live. I will
make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
Psalm 4:7 – Fill my
heart with joy when their grain and new wine abound.
Application:
- · As a young man confronts life in its social context, two voices lure him, appeal for his allegiance and seek to shape his life: (1) the voice of wisdom and (2) the voice of folly.
- · “Store up…within you” just as the psalmist hid God’s word in his heart to avoid sin.
- · Christ’s resurrection was further proof of God’s faithfulness to David.
- · “Heart” is in Biblical language for the center of the human spirit, from which spring emotions, thoughts, motivations, courage and action—“everything you do flows from it”.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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