Mar 1 - Today from Proverbs 1 we look at verse 7
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and discipline."
Without acknowledging and revering the Lord, one does not even begin to have a frame of reference for understanding the meaning and purpose of life. Without understanding the meaning and purpose of life, one will never know how to properly deal with life. People who do not acknowledge the Lord are ‘fools’.
A second thought has to do with the suffix '-ish'. One can be a successful fifty-year-old company executive and still be caught acting 'childish' at times, though he or she certainly is not a child. So it is with a believer who fails to acknowledge the Lord in any certain circumstance. Although he or she may not be a fool, one can still act 'foolish' at times. Those are the times when one chooses to ignore God's instruction and/or discipline. Even though we may not have to suffer the eternal consequences of a genuine fool (The fool says in his heart 'There is no God.' -Psalm 14:1), we can still experience the temporary consequences of being foolish when we ignore the clear instruction of God's Word.
By acknowledging the Lord and understanding the meaning and purpose of life, we develop a love and appreciation for His Word. By keeping our relationship with Jesus a priority, we experience His grace and ability to do His Word.
Why be foolish?
Since Nov 08
About Me
- Ken
- While mentor-ing a couple of young men late in the year 2001 , I told them that if they agreed to read a chapter of Proverbs each week-day as a part of their devotions, I would choose one verse from the chapter and share a meditation by email. They agreed. I continued to write the meditations at my desk in my home for the next two and a half years. They began to forward them to their friends and I received requests from those friends to be placed on the email list. My personal email bundle was to about eighty people. Many of those people forwarded them to friends all over the country – and some over the world. Only the Lord knows how extensive the writings traveled. I am not a professional writer, and each meditation was spun off in a relatively short period of time during my own personal devotions in the morning. In April of 2004 I assembled 366 of the meditations into a calendar year. As I now bring up the Proverb of the Day to send on to my friends, I am surprised at how fresh each of them is to my own heart – and often how they speak to me in a completely different way than when I first wrote them. . . . . Ken Sweers
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