Daily Challenges Archive
“The lazy do not roast any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.”
This proverb is about not getting to enjoy the fruit of one’s own labor. It is about the slothful, one who depends on others diligence to provide things that he wants and likes. It is also the reason why they often do without. In my life I have do...
“Whoever seeks good finds favor, but evil comes to one who searches for it.”
This verse is about looking for good in others lives. What a great way to live. I know I certainly love being around those kind of people. In this verse Solomon lets us know that we benefit by being that kind of person. It is returned to us as oth...
“The fear of the Lord adds length to life, but the years of the wicked are cut short.”
I saw this in an article the other day, “An international team of public health specialists, addiction researchers, cardiovascular and metabolic health professionals and nutritionists has found that switching from a typical Western diet to a healt...
“and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.”
Solomon’s letting us know the obvious, a slothful or lazy person will experience destruction and collapse in their life and it will happen swiftly. Like the thief who does not advertise their approach but suddenly appears and wreaks havoc. Like th...
“I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,”
Wisdom, Jesus, didn’t just watch His Father create the world, He participated. We are told else where in scripture that everything that was created was created by Jesus. I love pondering not only the power but also the creativity of the act of cre...
“Her house is a highway to the grave, leading down to the chambers of death.”
In yesterday’s verse we learned that there is no escaping being burned by sexual sin. Today he goes even farther by telling us it will kill you. Maybe physically but definitely it kills healthy relationships and spiritual growth, at least until it...
“Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?”
Only a magician can do this and then it’s only a trick. Solomon is making the point that adultery comes with the same guarantee of being severely hurt as having an open flame in your lap and next to your chest. Like a magician if it seems to not a...
“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.”
Kind of appropriate that this verse fell on today’s schedule as we go verse by verse through Proverbs. It’s primary elections day in Alabama. I am not foolish enough to suggest who anyone should vote for. However, as you try to decide, this passag...
“Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.”
Who would argue with this? Actually we all tend to. Sometimes we can blatantly ignore what we know is true. Even those without the Holy Spirit have the truth built deep inside. Those of us who claim the name of Jesus have the presence of God’s voi...
“Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.”
My theme for the year, quite possible the rest of my life, is #LoveJesusBeKind. It seems so simple. It’s not. It seems revolutionary. It is. This verse seems easy also. I mean seriously, who would not treat a deserving person well when they are ab...
“Blessed are those who listen to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway.”
I recently had lunch with a very successful owner of a “The Edge” partner company. At one point in our visit I asked about His time spent with God. He informed me, almost embarrassed, that he was not a reader. I totally got it. I never read a book...
“when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.”
Solomon turns to very familiar pictures from nature to show the utter devastation caused by a life ignoring God’s Wisdom. We see a rapidly moving and sudden storm that sweeps violently through the land causing devastation that is impossible to avo...
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