Daily Challenges Archive
“Whoever heeds life-giving correction will be at home among the wise.”
Wordsworth says about this truth that the one who dwells on Gods truth listens. Their heart is in the hearing. He goes on to say the fools heart is in their mouth. Listening to and learning from God and His correction enables the hearer to grow in...
“Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.”
Solomon has touched on this before. Jesus hammered it. God is not blessed or impressed by His followers who look down on or take advantage of the poor. I spent a significant amount of time in my earlier ministry working<br />with and serving lower...
“Do not accuse anyone for no reason— when they have done you no harm.”
Little people do this. Those people who cannot achieve on their own like to talk down about those who do. Sometimes it happens in business. As a person within an organization or their entire company succeeds a person who doesn’t will at times insi...
“If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!”
I have mentioned this uncomfortable truth before. There will be consequences for sin even when they are committed by Christ followers. We do not escape them just because of grace. Grace is an unfathomable gift to believers, available to everyone. ...
“Since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke,”
As a parent you have probably felt this way at some point. If you have ever parented a teenager I’m going to guess you have definitely felt this way. It can be similar to the way God often sees His wisdom rejected and mocked. Solomon describes thi...
“Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.”
I’m thinking that we can all agree this guy was pretty overwhelmed with his wife. Reading this chapter makes it easy to see why. It’s a pretty high bar. However I’m always amazed by how many women I know who are like this woman. Lots of my friends...
“There are three things that are stately in their stride, four that move with stately bearing:”
This is a picture of confidence. A lion and a king. The four listed all carry themselves like they own the world. I had a conversation the other day with the business owner who employs about 3000 people in his company. We talked about how so many ...
“From the mouth of the righteous comes the fruit of wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be silenced.”
Solomon spends a lot of time on a few subjects. Money, friends and a few others take of a significant amount of his attention. Sexual behavior and the tongue are two that crop up constantly. It is obvious that in a book about living wise, godly li...
“rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind.”
Now there is an upbeat verse. I’ve written about this section a few times. It deals mostly with God’s obvious witness through the creativity, beauty and power in His creation. I am overwhelmed by the presence of His eternal nature in everything we...
“Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.”
According to the “The World Counts” a child dies from hunger every 10 seconds. Poor nutrition and hunger is responsible for the death of 3.1 million children a year. That’s nearly half of all deaths in children under the age of 5. The children die...
“Do not envy the violent or choose any of their ways.”
The word violent in this verse is literally “man of mischief”. This is not the mischief my five-year-old grandson gets into. This is a dark evil. The caution is against worshipping or wishing to be like those whose works are evil and are successfu...
“they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.”
The Cambridge Bible simplifies this verse to the biblical truth, “as they sow, so shall they reap”. In Galatians Paul shares this with the reminder that God will not be mocked. The idea that we get away with sin is a dangerous lie. Recently I’ve h...
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