Proverbs 15:31
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
We are all, each one of us prone to mistakes. It is normal for humans to err at times. In His great wisdom, our Creator Who certainly knows our frame, gave us one tongue to lead us, as the words of our tongue do lead us as the rudder of a ship. He gave us one tongue but two ears that we may do twice as much listening than talking. Yet, the great Almighty left it to us to decide who and what we listen to.
We have our destiny in our hands. Will we live among the wise? We must hear the reproof of life. And what are the reproofs of life? Our author wrote these proverbs to teach us about the life-giving virtues of the Word of Instruction contained in the Torah.
Our generation has concluded that the ancient words of the Torah are passé. That they have served their time and that now we are grown up. It is taught today by wise preachers that these ancient precepts have by some magic been written in our heart. We are taught that as in the famous movie The Matrix, we have been programmed, like a computer, with the Words of God inside of us and that now, we are wise. We have been given the Book, but we don’t need to study it. Lo and behold, we have been transubstantiated (sarcasm intended) If this idea were to objectively be judged by its results, it would come out as the greatest of all hoaxes.
I am a teacher of teenagers; I wish it were that easy but whereas we are given the Book, our God has desired for us to go through the full lesson. He wants our whole being, mind, soul, spirit and body to go though the learning process of each of His Word. We may have been given a ‘scholarship’ at the University of Wisdom, but we still need to go through the course if we want the diploma. We still need to learn if we want the privilege of hanging around with the wise.
Let us not fool ourselves. Let us apply ourselves to the study of the full Word of God. How can we come to the right conclusions of the lessons of a book if we only read the last chapter?
We are all, each one of us prone to mistakes. It is normal for humans to err at times. In His great wisdom, our Creator Who certainly knows our frame, gave us one tongue to lead us, as the words of our tongue do lead us as the rudder of a ship. He gave us one tongue but two ears that we may do twice as much listening than talking. Yet, the great Almighty left it to us to decide who and what we listen to.
We have our destiny in our hands. Will we live among the wise? We must hear the reproof of life. And what are the reproofs of life? Our author wrote these proverbs to teach us about the life-giving virtues of the Word of Instruction contained in the Torah.
Our generation has concluded that the ancient words of the Torah are passé. That they have served their time and that now we are grown up. It is taught today by wise preachers that these ancient precepts have by some magic been written in our heart. We are taught that as in the famous movie The Matrix, we have been programmed, like a computer, with the Words of God inside of us and that now, we are wise. We have been given the Book, but we don’t need to study it. Lo and behold, we have been transubstantiated (sarcasm intended) If this idea were to objectively be judged by its results, it would come out as the greatest of all hoaxes.
I am a teacher of teenagers; I wish it were that easy but whereas we are given the Book, our God has desired for us to go through the full lesson. He wants our whole being, mind, soul, spirit and body to go though the learning process of each of His Word. We may have been given a ‘scholarship’ at the University of Wisdom, but we still need to go through the course if we want the diploma. We still need to learn if we want the privilege of hanging around with the wise.
Let us not fool ourselves. Let us apply ourselves to the study of the full Word of God. How can we come to the right conclusions of the lessons of a book if we only read the last chapter?
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