Proverbs 1

Proverbs 1

1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
We are to know wisdom and instruction.
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
We are to RECEIVE the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment, and equity.
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
We are to give humbly to the simple.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
If we are wise we will hear and increase the learning. We are to find WISE counselors. Biblical couselors.
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
We must find wise counself to understand a proverb and the interpretation.
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The beginning of knowledge is to have a fear of the Lord. A fool will despise wisdom and instruction.
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
We are to hear the instruction of our father, and we are not to forsake the rules our parents make.
9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
We are not to give in to sinners.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
We are not to walk with the people mentioned above. ^^ We are to stay clear of their path.
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.


Please comment anything you may get out of Proverbs 1.

New Blog Ideas...

Okay, so I've been trying to come up with things to do every day so I make sure I am posting what I learn. And have some accountability. So far I have...

Sunday--I will read through a few chapters of the Bible and post what I think or learned.

Monday--I will read a chapter or two of Psalms and post my thoughts on it.

Tuesday--Will continue to be Reader's Pick.

Wednesday--Weekly reading/thoughts of Philippians

Thursday--I will read Proverbs and post what I learned from it.

Friday--I will post a little something from the book called, "Gaining Favor with God and man".

Saturday--I will post on what the week was about in the devotion book I'm doing called 'Up'.


Also, I want to apologize for not posting this past Tuesday for Reader's Pick. I'm going through some struggles and I haven't been doing very good spiritually. Please pray for me if you think about it! Thanks everyone!!!

~Emily

Good day for thoughts...

Hi everyone!!

So first off I'd like to say that I had another bad start. I didn't get up until after 8 o'clock. Grr... Buuut, as far as school goes, I did get my 2nd unit in math finished, as well as my 2nd unit in science. I almost got my english finished when my computer started having issues. So I'll finish it tomorrow.

My mommy [yes, I still call my mom mommy sometimes.] made me and my brother waffles for lunch!! They were yummy! And then I went with my mom after lunch to take supper to the Troll's.

The Troll's are a family in our youth group and Mrs.Troll just had her 6th baby last week. Her oldest is a girl that is in 8th grade. It was amazing, I have never really been to their house and stayed for a little while. The family works together so well, and the children's obeying skills are excellent!! The oldest girl and boy, who is in 7th, help in all the ways that they can. They help with the baby and the one and a half year old, and the other girl who is in 2nd grade loves to help as well. It was just amazing to see such a togetherness in the family.

When I got home I did my devotions. Well, kinda. I did my Proverbs. Proverbs 31, and while I was reading I noticed that the chapter is exactly 31 verses long. So I thought in January, the start of a new year, I could do a month study on Proverbs 31. And each day take a verse, starting with verse one, and study one verse a day for the month of January.

Then I was going to start my book called 'The Girl in the Mirror', and I was reading the introduction and I found out that it is a book about all of Proverbs and where women are mentioned in Proverbs!! So I thought I'll wait until tomorrow to start on chapter one. I have a really wierd habit of everything having to be in order, and well, on the first day. Haha. So I'll post more about that tomorrow.

Then I just kinda hung around looking at sites until supper and then we went to church.

At church my youth leader read and spent most of the time on my papers I gave him. The one was about the contemporary music and how it is failing to 'keep' people in the Word of God. It 'gets' them there, but it doesn't hold them for long because they get tired of it and go back to regular worldly things. The other was about the 'kidult' and how adults are getting to there 20's/late 20's and are still playing video games for many many hours a day. So we had a little bit of discussion on both of those topics.

Because we spent most of the time on those topics, we only had 10 minutes left for Pilgrim's Progress. We were talking about the study sheet and who got them done when Nathan and some one else said that they didn't get number three. It was a question about what I talked about yesterday, and how depending on our strength or weakness in God determines the amout of joy and peace and all the other things we will have. It was so amazing. And I shared that with him that I had really gotten that from that part of the book.

Here's a challenge I have decided to take on my own.
-~-No T.V. for 1 month.
Soooo, starting tomorrow I am not going to watch any T.V./movie all of the month of November. Please pray that the Lord would help me through this time and that I would not give in to the temptation of watching T.V. while the rest of my family is doing it. ~Thank you.

Well, that's all for today. I need to sleep so I can have a better day tomorrow!!

~~~Emily