Sets The Widow's Boundary Stones In Place

Proverbs 15:20-25 – A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother. Folly brings joy to one who has no sense, but whoever has understanding keeps a straight course. Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. A person finds joy in giving an apt reply—and how good is a timely word! The path of life leads upward for the prudent to keep them from going down to the realm of the dead. The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he sets the widow’s boundary stones in place.

Isaiah 50:4 – The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.

Proverbs 2:18,21-22 – Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead…For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it; but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.

Proverbs 23:10-11 – Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, for their Defender is strong; he will take up their case against you.

Application:

• ·         The servant assisted the weak. Unlike Israel, the servant was responsive to God.
• ·         A life of immorality leads to the destruction and death of all who are involved.
• ·         Oppressing the widow and the fatherless is strongly denounced.
• ·         God is a “father to the fatherless, a defender of widows”.
• ·         God warned that if the people refuse to obey him, they “will be uprooted from the land”.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV