This reading focuses on Lady Wisdom with a brief touch on Lady Folly. We need to focus of ensuring we learn wisdom.\u00a0 Verse 8:5 shows wisdom is for all:<\/p>\n
\nYou gullible people, acquire insight.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You naive ones, cultivate a heart that truly understands.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nWe really all have to think of ourselves as gullible every day and strive to \u201cacquire insight.\u201d Unfortunately if we think of living with wisdom of Solomon most if not all would be fooling themselves. Also remember, with all Solomon\u2019s wisdom he fell into following lesser gods and demonic incantations. That is why we must be vigilant in our daily quest for knowledge in our Lord!<\/p>\n
Verse 8:19 tells us of the reward:<\/p>\n
\nMy reward is better than gold, even the purest gold;
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and my profit is greater than the highest quality silver.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nWisdom is more valuable than any earthly item, yet we tend to throw it away for riches. As you read and remember lust is the other thing that tends to shut ones brain off from wisdom. We tend to follow the next flashy thing be it a car, a job, a movie star or a cute secretary and not wisdom. Again based on the number of wives and \u201cconcubines\u201d Solomon had before his kingdom fell apart, I really wonder how wise he really was!!<\/p>\n
Verse 9:17 takes us down the other path in life:<\/p>\n
\n\u00a0Lady Folly:<\/strong>\u00a0Stolen water tastes so much sweeter!
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bread secreted away is\u00a0much more<\/em>\u00a0satisfying to eat!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nFolly will tell us that leisure is more important than work. Folly will tell us to take the easy path and not pass through the \u201cnarrow gate\u201d of Jesus. After 50+ years of living I can say without a doubt that \u201cbread\u201d earned from the sweat of ones brow is much sweeter than \u201cbread secreted away.\u201d \u00a0I am on food stamps right now and the only thing I can say is thank you to all who fund the government. This is a first in my life and am humbled to have to take charity.\u00a0 I can say it\u2019s not \u201csweeter\u201d than getting a pay check and using my own money. Although I have to admit we tend to buy more organics, not sure if that\u2019s because they are \u201cfree\u201d or because the need for pure foods from my cardiac arrest, but technically the food has been a tad better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Proverbs 8 \u2013 9 This reading focuses on Lady Wisdom with a brief touch on Lady Folly. We need to focus of ensuring we learn wisdom.\u00a0 Verse 8:5 shows wisdom is for all: You gullible people, acquire insight. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You naive ones, cultivate a heart that truly understands. We really all have to think of ourselves … Continue reading “Was Solomon Really All That Wise?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}