Bill Fitzhenry's Thoughts For Today…

“This Book of Proverbs is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences: regulating the morals of men: and directing them to wisdom and virtue. And these sentences are also called PARABLES, because great truths are often couched in them under certain figures and similitudes.” quote

Reading through the 31 chapters of Proverbs monthly can give us an understanding of how to serve God.

Proverbs 2

2:22

²² But the wicked will be cut off from the earth,
And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.

2:1

¹ My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you,

In chapter 2 verse 1 the “my Son” section of Proverbs begins and extends through chapter 7. Chapters 8 and 9 are the personification of wisdom and folly. Chapters 10 through 31 are general proverbs and divine principles which have a broad application to those who, like the rain, extends to both the evil and the righteous.

In chapter 2 the counsel to the spiritually endowed is to provide escape from arrogant unbelief and then to avoid evil companionship. The first to be avoided is that which leads to fulfilling the lust of the eye.

The companion who is undisciplined and lawless - best recognized by a lack of restraint - is destined for destruction and will take all who follow him there also.

The second danger is the woman who is there to tempt and participate in the lust of the flesh. All sins of sexual nature are to be included here. There are other areas of conduct which the writer will explore, particularly sins of the tongue. But of these above he can say, they are, “cut off from the land,” and, as ”evil be rooted out of it.”