Posted on 04/09/2020 6:53:00 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled” (Proverbs 9:3-5 KJV).
“. . . she crieth upon the highest places of the city,” that would be where the majority of the people would be and be able to hear from.
“Whoso is simple,” there are two kinds of “simple” people in Proverbs. This one is a humble man. Down in verse 16 we have the simple one that goes into the wrong house, taking the wrong instruction. This man is a simpleton. A simpleton is one that rejects the plain truth of the Word of God, and God Himself, and decides just to go on his own human wisdom and intellect. He is just stupid. He won’t listen to someone that has the truth, he refuses to hear the truth.
“Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither,” now, here is realization. What does a person have to realize to go into the right house? We have to realize what you and I really are. We are really very simple. Do we realize that if we were not taught by our parents, if we were not taught by the Bible, if we were not taught by good teachers, what we would think and the world and what we would think about life? Growing up from a child?
Every day a child makes wrong decisions. They make wrong assumptions and wrong statements, and they have to be corrected. Do you ever imagine what a child would be like if just left to himself? It would be a shame, wouldn’t it? So, really, in the main we are born simple. We really don’t know anything. In fact, most of the things we think we know—we are completely wrong. You take a child, and they overestimate and underestimate things.
“Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither,” this is realization. You realize who and what you are. You’ll be wise enough to turn to God and to turn into the right house.
“. . . as for him that wanteth understanding,” in other words, you realize that you don’t have it, and you need it. It is important. It is a priority.
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