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Re: The Proverbs: Practicality in Everyday Life [message #6168 is a reply to message #6154]

Sat, 31 October 2009 15:11

sparkles
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Prov. 2:1-5 "My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
2)So that you incline your ear unto wisdom, and apply you heart to understanding;
3)Yea, if you criest after knowledge, and lift up you voice for understanding;
4)If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
5)Then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God."

We have a tremendous promise in these verses, but there are things we must do to receive the promise: receive the words, hide the commandments, incline our ear, apply our heart, cry after knowledge, lift up our voice, seek and search.

Then shall we understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

Prov. 4:20-22 "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh."

The Lord has promised us that His words are life to us. His words will preserve and guide us in every situation in our lives. In these last days we need to seek the Lord and study His Word with much diligence, so we can understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. The Lord has promised to give us wisdom and guidance, to lead us in the paths of righteousness.

As I was reading on another christian site I was shocked and saddened to see the way so called brothers treated each other. Maybe because they weren't face to face, but just maybe because they were not speaking the wisdom of God, or had knowledge of God's ways. I guess they did not know what manner of spirit they were presenting and speaking by. Some would call it discernment and standing up for the faith, but it was nothing more than pride and arrogance, and self righteousness. The more
they "rebuked" others, the more they gave in to the flesh(at the very least, if not spirits of wickedness.) And before anyone think it is a particular site, I have visited various sites, but it seems like the same condescending, critical spirit on many of them. God help us to minister grace to the hearers and not bite and devour one another, and be consumed one of another. Pride is a hard thing to give up, but we must, if we desire to be like Jesus and walk in the fear of the Lord and have the knowledge of God. Just because someone can quote scripture does not mean he walks in the everyday application of the Word of God.

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