Proverbs: How to Build a Life: Training in Wisdom
About this episode
The episode discusses how to build a life through wisdom as outlined in Proverbs 3:1-12.
We continue our series through the book of Proverbs, How to Build a Life, with a message from Proverbs 3:1-12. A house is built by wisdom, and it is established by understanding (Proverbs 24:3), and that word for house does not mean a building but a household, a family. Many of us carry gaps in our formation, conversations we wish our parents had had with us about money, marriage, relationships, parenting, decision making, and conflict, and we are left figuring out the big things of life on the go. The book of Proverbs is what we wish we had received. Solomon sits down with his son and shows him the way to live, and each of these fatherly discourses follows a pattern. The Pattern of the Fatherly Discourses: 1) Address 2) Call to listen 3) A Command 4) Reasoning 5) Warning 6) Conclusion Grant Clark walks through the third of the ten discourses and shows us five practical things we can do to train in wisdom. From Proverbs 3:1-12: 1) Trust in the Lord 2) Submit to His Word 3) Be humble 4) Be generous 5) Learn from suffering and hardship Submit to His Word. Proverbs is bookended by wisdom from a father in chapter 1 and a mother in chapter 31, which suggests God's primary way of…
People in this episode
Guest: Grant Clark
Topics covered
- wisdom
- family
- Proverbs
- spiritual growth
- decision making
Keywords
- wisdom
- Proverbs
- family
- spirituality
- decision making
- trust in the Lord
- humility
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Proverbs, Deuteronomy
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