Proverbs

Pr. 22: 6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.


A couple of times in my life I've had arguments over this verse...in my head. I was too chicken to say it out loud. And a couple times I have discussed with friends the question of whether or not it's right to say "if the child doesn't come out well, the parents didn't train him/raise him right." Some would say, of course that is too simplistic, there are other factors involved, but others would say that a literal interpretation of the Bible is


It seems that if we take everything
According to Prov 21:9 if your wife is quarrelsome you should move out. (Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife. )


17 He who loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and oil will never be rich.
prov 21:17, has been provedn wrong hasn't it? There are ppl who love pleasure and wine and oil and are rich, not poor.
Pr. 22:4 Humility and the fear of the Lord
bring wealth and honor and life.
Does this mean that someone who has very little wealth or very little honor has very little humility or fears the Lord only a little?


Pr. 22:5 In the paths of the wicked lie thorns and snares, but he who guards his soul stays far from them.
- I think one young friend I talked to this week has been led to believe that this verse should be taken as a promise to bank on, because of his reaction to this news. Our friends' son, Josh, fell off the roof of a 22 foot high building and we were praying, even fasting for a day, for his recovery, at first afraid that he would die, then worried about brain damage and handicaps. So on Friday when I told this friend how excited and amazed we were that God healed Josh and we had seen him up walking, talking and using the computer, his reaction surprised me. I had told him that Josh was a faithful Christian, so the young man said, “Oh, well, he belongs to God, so God wouldn't have let anything happen to him.” In response, I told him about how one of my students at school had asked as soon as he heard about the fall. “If Josh is such a good Christian, why did God let him fall?”