Listen to Nick read the Firestarter and Proverbs 4:1-9.
The key to this chapter is the Hebrew musar: “instruction.” The word means “correction, chastisement, rebuke, and warning,” not the kind of physical punishment that parents wrongly inflict on their children. We would say it is what happens when we “learn the hard way”; the pain of our mistakes becomes instruction for change.
Anything less than total surrender to God will bring spiritual distress to you. Take responsibility for your situation, without blaming others or punishing yourself for your sin and mistakes.
Actually, the image of a parent is not the one that Proverbs uses here, but rather of a woman who longs to be loved by a man. A feminine dimension of God’s love is beautifully expressed here. Embrace wisdom.
What are Bible Breaths? Learn More…
Example: Keeping watch over my heart v. 23
Tuesdays are dedicated to the Old Testament books of history
and the Hebrew “Writings.”
In the Winter Season of Advent to Epiphany this year we read Judges, Proverbs 4 6.
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The Bible Through the Seasons 