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Embracing Wisdom and Instruction
In this episode, we explore the importance of accepting guidance and commandments to l… (visit YouTube for more)
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If you want your children to grow up well adjusted and to do well in life, do you never tell them off? Do you never correct them? Of course not. And so let us take the correction from the word of God today as we meditate on Proverbs 10, verse eight. The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
When we meditate on the word of God, we have to say, what does this mean to me? How does this apply to me? And so when I look at this verse, I have to say, am I a babbling fool? Does that aptly describe me sometimes? It probably does!
Have I resisted commandments? Have I resisted wisdom? Have I sometimes thought I know best? Uh, yes. Often.
But the writer of the Proverbs says that if we are wise in our hearts, we’ll receive these commandments. We will take instruction. We will look to those who are more experienced. We will look to those who’ve been further than we have.
We won’t just babble. We won’t just spew forth our opinions. It is kind of hard to resist that temptation, isn’t it, with so many opportunities presented to us by social media to spew forth our opinions, to be babbling fools.
But the writer of Proverbs says, stop, this will ruin you. Be wise, receive instruction. Get yourself under authority. Find many people who will train you, who will lead you on, whether that be wise and godly parents, or church leaders or peers. We can learn from one another.
Let us be wise in heart, receive commandments, and most particularly receive commandments from God. His guidelines are worth following.
Lord, help us not to be those babbling fools. We don’t want to come to ruin, and we also don’t want the gospel to come into disrepute. Help us to do all things in your name and in submission to you. Amen.
