Proverbs 14 Select Verses NASB1995
1 The wise woman builds her house,
But the foolish tears it down with her own hands.
3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod for his back,
But the lips of the wise will protect them.
6 A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none,
But knowledge is easy to one who has understanding.
7 Leave the presence of a fool,
Or you will not discern words of knowledge.
11 The house of the wicked will be destroyed,
But the tent of the upright will flourish.
14 The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways,
But a good man will be satisfied with his.
22 Will they not go astray who devise evil?
But kindness and truth will be to those who devise good.
A person’s house can be their household, their family, their
physical dwelling on this earth, or it can be their own lives, their own bodies,
which, as believers in Jesus Christ, is the house of the Lord, in whom God
dwells by his Spirit. But based off the rest of these verses in Proverbs 14, I
would suggest that this is not speaking so much of a physical dwelling as this
is speaking of our spiritual dwellings, i.e. where we live spiritually in
relation to God and to the teaching of the Scriptures, for this speaks much of godliness
versus sin.
So, if anyone is wise (male or female), and so they build
their house with wisdom, that would mean that they are those who look carefully
to how they live and to the things that they believe and that they do, to make
certain that they are in line with what God has for their lives, with what his
will and his purpose is for their lives. This would certainly include how they
conduct themselves at home and with family, making certain that they are doing
what they should be doing as wives and as husbands, and as mothers and fathers,
especially in the area of the care of young children.
So, if we build our houses wisely, we are those whose lives
are surrendered to Jesus Christ, to doing his will, who make it our practice to
follow his leading and to go where he sends us and to say what he commands us
to say and to do and to be. Our will is to do the will of God for our lives.
But if we are foolish, and so we tear down our houses, that means that we are
living selfishly, for our own sinful pleasures, without regard for what God wants
for our lives. And this impacts not just our lives but the lives of the people
in our physical households, as well, and all people we influence.
Those who are regarded as wise, in this context, as
believers in Jesus Christ, are those who are listening to the counsel of God,
written in his Word, written down as instructions for us who profess faith in
Jesus Christ. And they are those who are walking in the ways of the Lord, who
are obeying his commands, in practice, and who do not live for the pleasures of
the flesh but to please God. They seek the Lord and his will and his purpose
for their lives, and when he shows them what he has for them, they obey him,
even if it means being misunderstood, hated, cast aside, and rejected by others.
But the foolish are severely lacking in wisdom and in good
judgment, for they are being ruled by the flesh and not by God. They seek after
their own sinful pleasures and what makes them feel good, and they do not care
who gets hurt in the process. They speak foolishness and not wisdom. They scoff
at the wisdom of God and at those who are spreading that wisdom to other people.
And some of them are those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, but they go
astray, and they devise evil, and they look for ways to trip up the truly
righteous. And their house will be destroyed for lack of obedience.
For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny
self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if
we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity.
But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience
to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with
God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew
7:21-23).
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John
6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1
Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32;
Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2;
1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
Lead Me Gently Home, Father
By Will L. Thompson, 1879
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
When life’s toils are ended,
And parting days have come,
Sin no more shall tempt me,
Ne’er from Thee I’ll roam,
If Thou’ll only lead me, Father,
Lead me gently home.
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
In life’s darkest hours, Father,
When life’s troubles come,
Keep my feet from wand’ring,
Lest from Thee I roam,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.
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