Encouragement: Listen, my child

Today I bring you words and thoughts of encouragement from Proverbs 1:8-19

8 Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father,
and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.
9 For they will be like an elegant garland on your head,
and like pendants around your neck.
10 My child, if sinners try to entice you,
do not consent!
11 If they say, “Come with us!
We will lie in wait to shed blood;
we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.
12 We will swallow them alive like Sheol,
those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.
13 We will seize all kinds of precious wealth;
we will fill our houses with plunder.
14 Join with us!
We will all share equally in what we steal.”
15 My child, do not go down their way,
withhold yourself from their path;
16 for they are eager to inflict harm,
and they hasten to shed blood.
17 Surely it is futile to spread a net
in plain sight of any bird,
18 but these men lie in wait for their own blood,
they ambush their own lives!
19 Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly;
it takes away the life of those who obtain it!

Biblical Studies Press. (2006; 2006). The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Pr 1:8-19). Biblical Studies Press.

Listen to the words of your father and mother. These are hard words for most children to accept. The writer of Proverbs want us to be sure to benefit from the previous generation.

So often in our lives we are faced with the distractions and offers to gain profit by unjust means, but we are to turn away from these offers. We are not to consent, to stand firmly and use the judgement of those who have gone before us to light the way.

Amen

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