PROFITING FROM PROVERBS

“The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them” (Proverbs 11:3 KJV).

“The integrity of the upright shall guide them,” integrity is a quality of uprightness, doing right, honesty, sincerity. Having the right motives. A person that can be trusted. A person that has integrity means that when they tell you something, they mean it. Integrity means that if a guy tells you that he will pay you back $20.00 on Friday, you can set your clock that you’ll have your money on Friday. They will do what they say. It’s hard to find that kind of character today. It used to be that a man could borrow money on a handshake. Now you have to have $20K worth of collateral to borrow $10K.

Why? Because people don’t have the character they used to have. They don’t follow through on their word, they have no integrity. So, the banks cannot trust them, therefore they have to come up with collateral because the banks figure that sooner or later they are going to have to go after them to collect the hard way.

If you have collateral, why do you need to borrow money for? There was a time when a man could borrow money on his name or with a handshake. Those times are gone.

“The integrity of the upright shall guide them,” good character and right motives will keep them out of trouble. When a man is tempted to do wrong, the fact that he has an established moral compass will keep him from making the wrong decision.

“. . . but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them,” they are just crooked. They are always out for an easy buck and an easy way of getting it. Their lives are filled with shortcuts and most of the time they simply do not allow the law to stand in their way.

Daily Bible study is necessary if we are going to begin our day with the right attitude and the right spiritual diet. Proverbs has 31 chapters, and most months have 31 days, so let's read a chapter of Proverbs a day and see what God might have for us. As the Lord leads, share with us what God has shown you in a special way and by His grace let us build up a devotional repository. Let's keep our knives and forks handy for some daily bread! Ideally, a chapter or two of Proverbs will fit in nicely with a good plan of reading our Bibles through each year.

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