Thoughts on Proverbs 2
Beautiful passage, re-read it many times. Just ended up making a rewrite/paraphrase for easier reading (left-brain thinking).
- Receive God’s Word
- Treasure His commands
- Ears – attentive to wisdom
- Heart – inclined to understanding
- Seek it like silver
- Search for it like treasure
- Then you will understand, the fear of the Lord
- Then you will find, the knowledge of God
- The Lord gives wisdom, knowledge, understanding
- He stores up wisdom for the upright
- He is a shield to those who walk in integrity
- He guards the paths to justice
- He watches over the way of the saints
- Then you will understand righteousness, justice, equity, every good path, for
- Wisdom will come to your heart
- Knowledge pleasant to your soul
- Discretion – watching over you
- Understanding – guarding you
- Delivering you from the way of evil
- From men of perverted speech whose paths are crooked and devious in their ways
- From the adulteress with her smooth words whose path leads to death
- So you will walk in the way of the good
- So you will keep to the paths of the righteous
- For the upright will inherit the land, those with integrity will remain in it
- But the wicked will be cut of from the land, the treacherous will be rooted out of it