PROFITING FROM PROVERBS

“Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth” (Proverbs 19:2 KJV).

“Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good” it is better to be poor and to walk in your integrity then that the soul be without knowledge “. . . and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth,” some people are in just too much hurry . . . haste makes waste. That is an axiom of life, people that make decisions in a hurry usually make the wrong decisions.

Some have done that in moving somewhere, or in getting a job, or even in getting married. When we make a hasty decision without honestly giving it time to think over it are now suffering what they call “buyer’s regret.” It isn’t like you can just move back to where you started, considering the expense in the first place. And sadly, in America, there are too many marriages that should have been blessed and fruitful, except that they were with the wrong party—so they are sad and miserable.

Then he spoke about the soul being without knowledge. In the Old Testament, the body and the soul were considered to be the same things. The Holy Spirit used them interchangeable. And for a man to be without knowledge in the Old Testament meant that he couldn’t make a living, he couldn’t supply for his needs, and he couldn’t supply the needs of his family. That was pretty bad. A man like that is tempted to do wrong in order to make ends meet, and to be bitter and be mean.

As to us, we have a body and a soul, and our outward man has learned some things—the wisdom of this world—the Bible tells us that men “are ever learning, yet never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (II Timothy 3:7). A carnal man knows a lot, but he doesn’t know much truth. He knows a lot of facts, like baseball averages and the like, while their souls are empty. They don’t know about God, they don’t know about grace, and frankly they don’t care one way or the other. When a man’s spiritual knowledge is void of understanding and knowledge, it is not good. This is the definition of a biblical fool. Just think about how much Einstein and Hawking knew, and yet they both died and went to hell. I’d be happier being as dumb as a post and yet knowing that I was going to go to heaven when I die.

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