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Category: Good advice – Proverbs & wisdom

Proverbs 22:6 = saying to teach your children part of the books of wisdom of the Old Testament which also includes Ecclesiastes by Solomon written with the wisdom and experience of old age
Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he grows older he will not abandon it.

Wisdom from Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon / Song of Songs. Please SHARE a Proverb or other Biblical quote of advice for today. How does this talk of Jesus in the 21st century? What’s Jesus’ advise for you and me IF He were to use this proverb for our worldly friends and application to our Christian lives in witness to our Lord?

  • My Love – 5 – Sex

    My Love – 5 – Sex

    The lure of eros…

    as a bird rushes into a snare;
        he does not know that it will cost him his life.

    – Proverbs 7:23b

    When a Man Loves a Woman

    heart when a man loves a woman

    Then the LORD God said,

    “It is not good for the man to be alone.

    I will make a helper who is just right for him.”

    Genesis 2:18 NLT

    23 Then the man said,

    “This at last is bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;
    she shall be called Woman,
    because she was taken out of Man.”
    24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

    25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. – Genesis 2 ESV

    Eros: sexual love of a man for a woman and of a woman for a man; often misleading us into sin, though God intends this most intimate love exclusively for a man and his wife to join them together as one.

    By sexual intercourse we become one in the flesh and in the spirit with another human being. It is a great and wonderful mystery.

    Genesis 4: Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” And again, she bore his brother Abel… 25 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, “God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

    In the beginning, a husband and wife and children.

    Do you recall that the controversy between Cain and his brother was over worship of God? Two kinds of love both dependent on the love of God.

    It’s all relational and Genesis continues with these themes of interconnected types of love which all affect our relationship not only to God, not only between a husband and wife, and not only between parents and sons and daughters; but all relationships within families and beyond the love and boundaries of family.

    These intimate relationships all become quickly complex. (Just take the love of Jacob for Rachel, for example.) At the middle of many intimate controversies we will often find eros, the sexual attraction between a man and a woman.

    We remain united in spirit to one we have engaged and known in the flesh. It is an unknowable mystery. The awesome connection of sex becomes even too weighty for our own hearts when we stray outside of God’s will.

    Yet Love Is a Many Splendored Thing within the boundaries, commitment and vows of marriage.

    Let your fountain be blessed,
    and rejoice in the wife of your youth. – Proverbs 5:18

    Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;
    be intoxicated always in her love. 5:19b

     

    He who finds a wife finds a good thing
    and obtains favor from the LORD. Proverbs 18:22

    Man adam, and woman taken from man and given to man by God that they might be one. A godly wife for a godly husband to bear godly children, to keep boundaries of godly families… from this we have strayed far in these last days.

    Eros is a sensual soft linen of the marriage bed, perfumed with the nectars of passion between a man and a woman in love.

    How lightly does the world of the flesh misrepresent this beautiful love given to us by God.

    Song-of-solomon engagementThe Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.

    The Bride Confesses Her Love

    She

    2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!
    For your love is better than wine;
    3     your anointing oils are fragrant;
    your name is oil poured out;
        therefore virgins love you.
    4 Draw me after you; let us run.
        The king has brought me into his chambers.

    Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other

    He

    8 If you do not know,
        O most beautiful among women,
    …

    9 I compare you, my love,
        to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.
    10 Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments,
        your neck with strings of jewels.

    song8_6-7Do you not know how the stallion and the mare mate in passion?

    The love song of Solomon for his bride becomes as sensual as any erotica or story of sexual love you will ever read. I commend it to you, lovers betrothed, husband and wife. God has intended our love for good and for our pleasure.

     Song of Solomon – read by Max McLean

     

  • Hope deferred, Desire fulfilled

    Hope deferred, Desire fulfilled

    Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
    but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12

    And so it has been, since twice rejected by the wife of my vows. It is not right in the LORD.

    Proverbs 30:

    The man declares, I am weary, O God;
    I am weary, O God, and worn out.
    2 Surely I am too stupid to be a man.
    I have not the understanding of a man.
    3 I have not learned wisdom,
    nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.

    ‘God is with me. God is with me; yet the son is devoured’

    Do these weary, worn words of Proverbs 30 not point to Christ? Yet even I am devoured by my sin on His Cross, God’s own compassion for me.

    Who will have such compassion on the weary and worn? Surly the church is too busy to comfort a man of no understanding. Surly the compassion and mercy of Christ hide behind proud deeds of service in His Name, worship to fill one’s own heart.

    7 Two things I ask of you;
    deny them not to me before I die:
    8 Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
    give me neither poverty nor riches;
    feed me with the food that is needful for me,
    9 lest I be full and deny you
    and say, “Who is the Lord?”
    or lest I be poor and steal
    and profane the name of my God.

    traditional marriage vows It is the lie of the beloved,

    which makes the heart of the lover sick

    with hopelessness and mistrust

    of hidden unfaithfulness.

    1 John 1:5-6 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

    Colossians 3:9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices.

    Is the husband not head of the wife? Is it right in the Lord that she should lie to him, who is lord over her body and one with her in spirit? Marriage, the joining of two souls alone, is a great mystery! In the unfathomable mystery of this same deep intimacy of relationship, we in Christ are also joined with Him.

    The Bridegroom will return for His Bride, His Church;

    Desire fulfilled by the Bridegroom of eternal life.

     Proverbs 30: 

    32 If you have been foolish, exalting yourself,
    or if you have been devising evil,
    put your hand on your mouth.
    33 For pressing milk produces curds,
    pressing the nose produces blood,
    and pressing anger produces strife.

    Would you be a wise woman, a bride worthy of the love of your beloved?

    The Woman Who Fears the Lord

    Proverbs 31

    10 An excellent wife who can find?
        She is far more precious than jewels.
    11 The heart of her husband trusts in her,
        and he will have no lack of gain.
    12 She does him good, and not harm,
        all the days of her life.

     

     

  • He has put eternity in their hearts

    He has put eternity in their hearts

    It is no longer a question of God: God IS – and we all know it. Our question and quest for knowledge and power over our own lives and circumstances only asks: will I bow down to the eternal God?

    We have knowledge, near complete and inexhaustible. We have Bibles we refuse to read and evidence to which we turn our backs.

    God created. God judges. God punishes. God redeems. God forgives. God loves.

    And God has sent a Savior and Redeemer to the world in the Person of Christ Jesus.

    The decision is in the heart and response of each created being – each man; each woman.

    • Will you bow down to God the Father, Eternal Creator of all the world and all mankind?
    • Will you receive the love and sacrifice of God the Son in Christ Jesus; who IS and who was and who will return to judge your soul?
    • Will you open your heart of stone to God the Holy Spirit, turning from your sin and following the love of Christ’s example?

    God has put eternity in your heart. The world knows eternity and God, yet cannot accept the limits of each breath and heartbeat to sustain our soul, our mind, our failing flesh and crumbling bones.

    Loved ones

    gasp for breath,

    wait for the strength

    of another heartbeat,

    search faulty thoughts for

    what was once recalled,

    walk tenderly on bonesold hand

    once thought sturdy

    and measure days

    till the grave

    by mem’ries

    and dreams of our past.

    LORD GOD,

    will I finally remember

    old man in beret at graveeternity of my soul,

    saved for your love

    by your love,

    saved from just punishment

    for my many sins,

    by your own Sacrifice

    of Christ Jesus –

    will I remember

    the eternity you have placed

    in my heart

    before the end of the daysiv

    you have created

    for this failing flesh?

    God test us, that we may see that the end of our earthly days will be no different than animals, that in the end our ashes return to ashes and our dust to dust.

    Yet only man has a soul made in the Image of God!

    And only Christ Jesus lived as a sinless man in the Image of the sinless God of eternity.

    By the sacrifice of Jesus only – by the blood of Christ only – by the love and grace of God only do we yet have the choice for repentance from our sins and life eternal for our soul – life eternal without blame in the Presence of the love of God our heavenly Father; Christ Jesus who loved us even to the death and IS eternal for us in the resurrection; of the Holy Spirit who would even now break through the hardness of our heart toward the loving Father and bring our prodigal soul home forever.

    You may ask in these passing days of passing seasons, ‘Where have I heard that He has put eternity in my heart?’ How do I know that my soul lives life once and will sleep until the judgment?

    It is written in God’s Holy Bible. Have you read it?

    Do you read (in these passing seasons of your flesh) God’s intention and purpose for your remaining measured days?

    Ecclesiastes 3

    NKJV

    To everything there is a season,
    A time for every purpose under heaven:
    2 A time to be born,
    And a time to die…

    9 What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? 10 I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied.

    11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.

    12 I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, 13 and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.

    14 I know that whatever God does,
    It shall be forever.
    Nothing can be added to it,
    And nothing taken from it.
    God does it, that men should fear before Him.
    15 That which is has already been,
    And what is to be has already been;
    And God requires an account of what is past…

    17 I said in my heart,

    “God shall judge the righteous and the wicked,
    For there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

    18 I said in my heart, “Concerning the condition of the sons of men, God tests them, that they may see that they themselves are like animals.” 19 For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity.

    20 All go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust. 21 Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth?

    Christ Jesus said:

    I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

    John 12:46

    Do you yet live in the darkness of your sin? Or does your soul embrace the light of life in Christ Jesus?

     

    To everything there is a season

    A time to every purpose under heaven.

    A time for repentance

    Or a time of judgment,

    A time of sin

    Or a time of grace,

    A time of darkness eternal

    Or a time of light.

    I pray for your heart and soul to embrace the love and grace of Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

    Amen.