Welcome back! After a long hiatus I am picking up my pen again, so to speak, and continuing to blog through these precious words of wisdom given to inform our mind and incline our heart to the truths and promises of God. I encourage you to take a look back at the introductory blog Blogging in Proverbs as a sort of refresher on the format we began with on how to study the Scripture. Subsequent blogs “practiced” the format through Chapters 1-3, with Friday each week eventually given to you doing it on your own. As we start back in Proverbs 4, each day will be a do-it-yourself with a few questions, thoughts, illustrations and quotes to prod your thinking along the way. I look forward to our time together each week!
For today, read Proverbs 4 and determine how you might divide it into three sections of teaching. HINT: There is a common refrain you will find to start each section :).
This chapter hath much the same tendency as the former. It contains an exhortation to the pursuit of wisdom. And towards the close of the Chapter the sad effects of a contrary study is pointed out in strong characters. [Robert Hawker, Poor Man’s Commentary]
In this chapter Solomon advises to seek after wisdom, to avoid bad company, and to continue in the right paths of goodness and truth: he excites attention to what he had to say, from the relation he stood in to the persons addressed; from the nature of his instructions, which were good and profitable; and from his own example, in attending to those his parents gave him. [John Gill, Exposition of the Whole Bible]
Have a blessed day!