PROVERBS 2:1-5 –1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, 2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; 3 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, 4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, 5 then you…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Old Testament
You and I probably heard this “proverb” growing up. I did. Or maybe we used it ourselves in raising our children or being a good friend to another. It is the saying that goes something like this, “You will become like the company you keep.”
This Lord’s Day evening, we return to our study of the wisdom book of Proverbs. We will begin our third theme and one of that is everyone’s challenge – pride. The Proverbs has a lot to say about the Lord’s attitude toward pride and its destructive power.
PSALM 148:1-4 – Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens; praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts! Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars! Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens! THEME OF THE DAY. A LIFE OF PRAISE. It isn’t difficult to get…
PSALM 147:10-11 – His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man, but the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love. THEME OF THE DAY. THOSE IN WHOM THE LORD TAKES PLEASURE. Nothing is more thrilling in life than pleasing God. Nothing brings…
PSALM 138:8 – The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands. THEME OF THE DAY. IT IS GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN. Sooner or later in one’s walk with the Lord these words of His from the prophet Isaiah will be driven home to our hearts with painful…