Teaching and Learning:
An Ordered Life
Proverbs 29:2-11
The Message2 When good people run things, everyone is glad,
but when the ruler is bad, everyone groans.
3 If you love wisdom, you'll delight your parents,
but you'll destroy their trust if you run with whores.
4 A leader of good judgment gives stability;
an exploiting leader leaves a trail of waste.
5 A flattering neighbor is up to no good;
he's probably planning to take advantage of you.
6 Evil people fall into their own traps;
good people run the other way, glad to escape.
7 The good-hearted understand what it's like to be poor;
the hardhearted haven't the faintest idea.
8 A gang of cynics can upset a whole city;
a group of sages can calm everyone down.
9 A sage trying to work things out with a fool
gets only scorn and sarcasm for his trouble.
10 Murderers hate honest people;
moral folks encourage them.
11 A fool lets it all hang out;
a sage quietly mulls it over.
For Reflection
God is the ultimate source of wisdom and justice. When we live in the hollow of God's hand, we walk in His Kingdom fearlessly. Trusting in the Lord, awed by the grandeur and elegance of His works, and obedient to his commandment that we act out of God-centered wisdom with the love of human kind as a guide will wipe out fear and encourage wise living.
Pray
that you will trust in the Lord. Pray that you will be fearlessly righteous. Pray that you will find the courage to live in the hollow of God's hand and walk in Christ's footprints.
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