
Insights from Proverbs 4 for the 4th:
As a parent, we strive to raise wise, compassionate, and strong kids. Our highest responsibility is to point our children to a personal relationship with Jesus.
This is especially true for fathers.
Fathers are their son’s first hero and their daughter’s first love. A fatherless home or a home where the father is not intentionally leadership in spiritual development is tragic.
This Proverb is like eavesdropping on a father advising his son. He is imploring his son to pursue wisdom & avoid the path of the wicked.
There is time given to watching how you talk; “put a corrupt mouth far from you.” Words have power, be careful how you use them! Ever been around a negative person? Their words are like poisonous daggers. It gets old. Don’t be that guy.
Instead,
“above all things, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it.” (v. 23)
You know, we guard stuff that is important to us, but we let anything & everything into our hearts. We guard our phones better than we guard our hearts. Solomon tells his boy; more treasured than $$$ or career – is your heart: is it left out in the open & exposed? A sitting duck? Or is it Fort Knox? Is it the Iron Dome?
He talks about how the unrighteous eat & drink violence. Their path is in the dark. Literally. Since they can’t see what’s in front of them, they constantly trip and fall into holes. Don’t follow their blind lead.
However, the path of the just is like the light of dawn. It shines brighter & brighter until it is full day.
One trail is pitch-black, one is well-lit; which would you like to take?
He warns not to be enticed off the just way. Isn’t that what the world is doing to our youth; baiting them to turn to the left or right? They don’t care which direction – as long as it gets our children away from God.
- God’s Word is life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body.
- The world’s ways are death to those who find them and sickness to one’s whole body.
Fathers, we must be diligent in which direction we are aiming our precious arrows.
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