Blogging through Proverbs, one verse at a time!

“Without having any chief, officer, or ruler,”
-Proverbs 6:7

Have you ever just sat and watched an ant? I suppose everyone has in childhood. They are fascinating. You’ll see one ant scouting about. Talk about self-motivation! He doesn’t seem to ever rest. He finds some source of food, and before long, he’s told several hundred of his friends. Now they are lined up, back and… Continue

“Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.”
-Proverbs 6:6

I am still upset about my own laziness last weekend. Granted, it was a long week, and I am totally in favor of having a day of rest every week. Even so, I’ll still use one of the weekend days to get some writing done, record and post the podcast, and that sort of thing. Not last weekend. Last weekend, I couldn’t summon the energy to get anything done at all.

To my defense, I had worked a lot of hours last week, a… Continue

“save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.”
-Proverbs 6:5

I very much like nature. I like watching birds and squirrels and the like. There is little much more exotic in the city where I live, but at times I can sneak up on a squirrel on a tree trunk. I never get really close, of course. Usually, if I’m close enough that I can see him well, I won’t try to get any nearer.

The squirrel doesn’t know that I don’t mean him harm. As soon… Continue

“Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;”
-Proverbs 6:4

So we’re going to get two lessons for the price of one here. In the first, we will see how importance context is to biblical interpretation. I quoted this verse, as usual, without any verses around it. If you take the verse as it stands, you may start believing that to sleep is to sin.

Obviously, that is not what is going on here. But it stands as a good warning in an age when certain preachers will speak on a single v… Continue

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