Proverbs 7:5 KJV — That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. Your Covenant with wisdom keeps you safe from that which is outside the Covenant. Under the old Covenant, your ability to keep it was what kept you safe. Under the new Covenant, Jesus’ ability …
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Provide your meat
Proverbs 6:8 KJV — Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. The ant doesn’t receive her meat in the summer. The ant doesn’t try to get her meat in the summer. She provides it. This verse speaks of abundance and the expectation of providing for one’s needs. The ant …
Don’t even start
Proverbs 5:4 KJV — But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. The end determines the beginning. The end defines whether or not you should begin the journey. The start may be smooth as honey, but if the end is bitter as wormwood, don’t even start.
On promotion
Proverbs 4:8 KJV — Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. The key to promotion isn’t self-promotion. Instead, promoting and honouring wisdom will lead to wisdom promoting and honouring you.
Remembering gravity
Proverbs 3:1 KJV — My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: Gravity is one of God’s laws that governs our physical experience on earth. It’s not the supreme law, but one a number of physical laws e.g law of aerodynamics. You don’t have to remember or even be aware …
The Lord gives wisdom…
Proverbs 2:6 KJV — For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. …but you need to ask for it. Asking isn’t about God’s ego or meanness. Asking is about your free will and God’s inability to violate His Word in forcing you to do anything against your will…even if He’s …
Before we get to how
Proverbs 1:29 KJV — For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: God is not a puppetmaster. Everything God has provided by grace must be chosen. You have agency and freewill. The gap between God’s provision and your enjoyment of it is merely a decision. Before we get to …
Wisdom is taught
Proverbs 31:1 KJV — The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. Wisdom is taught, not told. It’s broken down into bite-size pieces, reinforced from multiple angles, repeated over and over and over again. That’s what it looks like to be instructed in wisdom.
God sees
Luke 7:44 KJV — And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Jesus noticed all the things that Simon …
What about Moses?
Genesis 6:3 KJV — And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. This verse is where God makes a covenant with man, granting him a minimum of 120 years of life. This verse follows the …