S3E184 – Proverbs 8-9: I’m Not A Smart Man

About this episode

This episode discusses Proverbs 8-9, emphasizing the accessibility of wisdom to all people.

Transcript Podcast Introduction Today we’ll read Proverbs 8-9, after which I have some comments on both chapters. I’m calling today’s episode “I’m Not A Smart Man.” Comments on Proverbs 8-9 Wisdom is again personified in this chapter as a woman. And here she calls out from the hilltops, at the crossroads, at the entrance to the city, to everyone on earth! Wisdom is available to any who will listen, not only the learned, but even the most humble. When I first began to think about this truth, I thought of Forrest Gump when he said, “I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is.” Even though it was fairly obvious in watching the film that he truly was not “smart”, he did learn a certain amount of wisdom…much more than the woman he loved who was “smarter” than he was. Bible commentator Derek Kidner wrote this about Proverbs 8: “A chapter which is to soar beyond time and space, opens at street-level, to make it clear, first, that the wisdom of God is as relevant to the shopping-centre as to heaven itself.” Duane Garrett had this to say: “The important point is that wisdom is for ordinary people—she is not confined to the academic…

People in this episode

Host: Steve Webb

Topics covered

• wisdom
• Proverbs
• Christianity
• spirituality
• humility

Keywords

• Proverbs
• wisdom
• Forrest Gump
• Christianity
• spirituality
• humility
• Derek Kidner
• Duane Garrett
• Adam Clarke

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