Solomon shares how those who want to do evil find those of like mind. Bad company breeds bad advice and deeds. If in doubt, revisit Rehoboam’s story. Solomon is still giving us stand-alone proverbs. This chapter seems to have a lot of them and today is another one. I don’t want to rush the Holy […]
Solomon brings a special kind of testing to our attention. This test concerns the heart of a man; in particular, a servant. It is a refining of a relationship. We were going to take one verse at a time but I saw something that links verse 2 with verse 3. I saw the relationship between […]
Trouble is not worth the price demanded for it. A quiet life is worth far more than money can buy. Peace with little is better than trouble with much. It seems like the first part of this chapter is going to be a verse by verse trek. My bible helps chose not to group them […]
Solomon addresses the form of ‘chance’ that God used to speak to Israel. Was it chance, or not, the answers they received. We have come to the last verse of Chapter 16. I had to look and see if the next chapter picked up the theme of this final verse. It doesn’t so we will […]
Solomon shares something very deep with us today. The one who can tame his spirit is MIGHTY indeed. An internal battleground instead of external. My bible helps has this verse and the next one standing alone. At first I thought about combining them but their themes are very different. So we will take each one […]