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Proverbs 1 – Wisdom’s Plea
December 5, 2011
14 verses of the Bible written for our time
Our government is led by “those who are wise in their own opinion and clever in their own sight” and “who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice”. (Isaiah 5)
Our children are educated by “those who call evil good and good evil” and “who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness”. America’s new role models are “those who are heroes at drinking wine”, and “who are fearless at mixing beer” (Is 5), to put it mildly.
America stands on a precipice facing fiscal insolvency and social unrest within. We are threatened by radical Islam and the growing economic and military power of Communist China abroad. The United States Of America is becoming a mere shadow of what we were a scant twenty-five years ago.
Barack Obama’s fault? George Bush’s, Bill Clinton’s? Can we blame the liberals, the democrats or the RINO’s?
We The People, not everyone of us to be sure, but collectively as a nation, have the government we asked for, the government we deserve. We handed the reins of power to the above culprits.
Since World War II America has gradually turned it’s back on God and our Christian heritage. We discarded the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, the wisdom they drew from the Bible. It was upon that wisdom they derived the principles upon which America was founded and flourished.
America has turned instead to the promises of politicians for salvation, and the entertainment industry as our guide to living. How’s that workin’ for us, by the way?
Yet if We The People are willing to once again heed the Wisdom God offers us through the Bible, we can pull our country back from the precipice. And a wise place to begin is the Book Of Proverbs, God’s manual for living. Proverbs 1 seems, indeed, to be written for our time
Proverbs 1
Wisdom’s Plea
Wisdom calls out in the street
She raises her voice in the public squares
She cries out above the commotion
She speaks at the entrance of the city gates
“How long, foolish ones, will you love ignorance?
[How long] will [you] mockers enjoy mocking
And [you] fools hate knowledge?
If you turn to my discipline
Then I will pour out my spirit on you
And teach you my words
Since I called out and you refused
Extended my hand and no one paid attention
Since you neglected all my counsel
And did not accept my correction
I, in turn, will laugh at your calamity
I will mock when terror strikes you
When terror strikes you like a storm
And your calamity comes like a whirlwind
When trouble and stress overcome you
Then they will call me, but I won’t answer
They will search for me, but won’t find me
Because they hated knowledge
Didn’t choose to fear the Lord
Were not interested in my counsel
And rejected all my correction
They will eat the fruit of their way
And be glutted with their own schemes
For the waywardness of the inexperienced will kill them
And the complacency of fools will destroy them
But whoever listens to me will live securely
And be free from the fear of danger
(Proverbs 1: 20-33)
Let the people say “Amen”
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