. . . TO RECEIVE THE INSTRUCTION OF WISDOM, JUSTICE, AND JUDGMENT, AND UPRIGHTNESS;

Proverbs 1:1-6
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

to know wisdom and instruction;
to recognize the words of understanding;
to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and uprightness;
to give sense to the simple,
knowledge and judgment to the young man;
the wise hears and increases learning;
and understanding ones get wisdom;
to understand a proverb and its meaning;
the words of the wise, and their acute sayings.


. . . to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and uprightness;

The unmovable standards of wisdom, justice and judgments are forever established in the heavenlies. Their Creator has provided us with the means to understand them, but today, the shifting sands of moral and spiritual relativity have robbed us from the stable standards of God’s words imbedded in rock solid stone.

We think we are so mart. We are like one who having bought an expensive piece of equipment, studies the manual in order to rewrite it to his own liking. What he thinks to improve, to his own hurt, he destroys with every alteration.

While we search for answers to heal our frazzled psyches, we fill ourselves with instructions of every sort. Only the instruction of wisdom, of the wisdom coming from God, makes any sense to the psychological programming imbedded in our souls. Anything else will freeze the program to an eventual total shut down, as we can see happens to many today.

God’s principles of justice and judgment are the foundation of human social etiquette; but in our search for self-justification, we have with each generation re-written the rules of right and wrong. The difference between black and white has not only become blurry, but one has traded with the other.

Uprightness is integrity towards God, His instruction and His sense of justice and of judgment. In total disregard to the unshakable truths found in the spiritual dynamics of obedience to God in spite of personal hurt, the concept of uprightness has now shifted to become integrity towards self-interest and preservation.

Let us in the study of these proverbs rediscover the ultimate unshakable truths that created us and our universe.