Selected Proverbs
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I am well acquainted with being humbled. With such a topic today I have an even greater motivation to cast myself on the One who can, even though often we can’t. The Bible makes some potent and precious promises to “the humble.” As I mount the sacred desk I am reminded of the words of Charles Spurgeon…
“…every Christian… has a choice between being humble and being humbled.”
Proverbs 9
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Solomon here is summing up the previous chapters and setting the stage for the rest of the book by encouraging his son to marry and be enthralled by wisdom. He has been building to this point where he sets before his son a choice between two contrasting ways and asks him to make a fundamental faith decision to be married to (in relationship with) wisdom and so be enabled to do what the rest of the book demands. And so two women vie for his affection. Which feast will he choose?