** choose wisdom, follow God, and you'll be blessed. **

Date:   5/14/2018 9:29:24 AM ( 6 y ago)

** Without wisdom a person's life is worthless!

The book of Proverbs was written for two groups of people:
those who know they need wisdom and those who don't know.

Regardless of which category you fall into, the wisdom in Proverbs is as relevant today as ever and the road map to a blessed life is still the same: choose wisdom, follow God, and you'll be blessed.

Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. —Proverbs 3:5

If God can guide the birds in their migrations and the planets in their orbits, He has an appointed way for our lives and can lead us accordingly. Many biblical texts reassure us of divine guidance, and among the best is Proverbs 3:5-6. Taken together, we have three commands and one all-embracing promise.

Three Commands
Trust in the Lord with all your heart. We can lean on the Lord’s promise because we can lean on the Lord Himself who is unchanging, unfailing, unerring, and illimitable.
Do not rely on your own understanding. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t think through decisions or use our God-given minds.

It means we think through things in total submission with God’s will and in complete awareness of His superior knowledge about the things that concern us.
Think about Him in all your ways. Acknowledge Him by saying, “Lord, I want to turn this dilemma or decision over to You. I desire Your perfect will.”

One Promise
He will guide you in the right paths. He will direct you in all your ways, giving you the wisdom to do what’s best and providentially arranging the circumstances of life according to His will.
He’ll lead you in the right path.

Burleigh Law served as a jungle pilot in central Africa. One day he took off in clear skies, but shortly he noticed thunderclouds in the distance; and these thunderheads rushed together at startling speed. Burleigh frantically searched for an airstrip, but there was nowhere to land. Openings appeared in the clouds here and there, and he kept turning his plane toward them, following little patches of blue. It was like a needle threading its way through fabric.
Burleigh was lost in the skies, depending entirely on visible navigation. Finally, spotting a little landing strip, he made it safely to the ground.

Suddenly a vehicle raced up to his plane, and a nurse jumped out and ran to the plane, shouting, “I don’t know where you came from, but I know you are an answer to our prayers.” This woman was staying with a missionary couple who had been isolated on a remote station for months.
The unsettled political situation had left them cut off from outside communication. The roads were impassible and the bridges out. The missionary wife had become ill with fever and possible rabies. That morning they had called together the Christians in the village, and the church had earnestly prayed for God’s guidance. That day, the Lord arranged the storm clouds to direct and guide Burleigh Law and his little plane to that spot of earth.
He can direct our paths, even if they’re in the clouds!
Every morning, he walked into the Oval Office; he quoted Proverbs 3:5-6. That’s how he started his day. —
Billy Zeoli about President Gerald Ford

Proverbs 3:6
Think about Him in all your ways, and He will guide you on the right paths. —
Proverbs 3:6

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus told us to enter the narrow gate, for the gate is wide, and the highway is broad that leads to destruction, and many are traveling that way. “How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life” (Matt. 7:4), He said, “and few find it.”

When memorizing Proverbs 3:6, we must prayerfully keep to the right path at every point. Look over these other verses that contain the same three words we see at the ending of Proverbs 3:6.

Those who follow the right path fear the Lord.
(Prov. 14:2 NLT)

He will guide you on the right paths. (Prov. 3:6)

I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths. (Prov. 4:11 NKJV)

Whoever abandons the right path will be severely disciplined; whoever hates correction will die.
(Prov. 15:10 NLT)

By forsaking the right path they have gone astray.
(2 Pet. 2:15 The NET Bible)

A sensible person stays on the right path. (Prov. 15:21 NLT)

Those who put others on the right path of life will glow like stars forever.
(Dan. 12:3 The Message)

If another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path.
(Gal. 6:1 NLT)

Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it. (Prov. 22:6 NLT)

Teach them to follow the right path. (1 Kings 8:36 NLT)

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path. (Prov. 23:19 NIV)

Keep on the right path, so the weak will not stumble but rather be strengthened.
(Heb. 12:12 NCV)

Teach me how to live, O Lord. Lead me along the right path. (Ps. 27:11 NLT)

Show me the right path, O Lord; point out the road for me to follow. (Ps. 25:4 NLT)

Lead me in the right path, O Lord.... Make your way plain for me to follow.
(Ps. 5:8 NLT)

He leads me along the right paths for His name’s sake. (Ps. 23:3)

He led them by the right path.... Let them give thanks to the Lord for His faithful love. (Ps. 107:7-8)

Discretion will watch over you... rescuing you... from those who abandon the right paths. (Prov. 2:11-13)

I praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right path.
(Gen. 24:48 The NET Bible)

Lord Jesus, when I begin to grow dizzy and faint because of what I see before me, draw my perspective back to You. Thank You, dear Shepherd, that You lead me in right paths.

— Hannah Hurnard

100 Bible Verses Everyone Should Know by Heart.



 

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