PROFITING FROM PROVERBS

“He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass” (Proverbs 16:30).

“He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things,” well, spiritually speaking, he shuts his eyes to the truth. It isn’t speaking about that specifically, its talking about dreaming, imagining, devising evil plans. It was so bad in the days of Noah that the imaginations of men’s heart were continually evil. The heart will make them up, you can just think up the most wicked things imaginable, the most ungodly things, the most selfish things. Who knows how many horrible mass murders have been played out in some men’s minds? Thank God they never acted upon them.

“. . . moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass,” he thinks about it and then he talks about it. Back in verse 28 we read that “a whisperer separateth chief friends. He does that with his mouth.

This proverb is connected to the one before it that reads this way: “A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.” These violent men abuse others personally or morally by persuading them into actions that are wicked.

Even the thought of foolishness is sin, and every sin begins in the heart and mind. Wicked men block out any advice or warnings against their lives in order to focus on their plans to seduce and harm others in their lust for sinful pleasures.

What are froward things? Anything that is contrary to what is right or reasonable, things that are bad, wrong, or perverse. The sinful desires and conduct of natural men without the fear of the Lord are always froward. They are always perverting God’s way on earth.

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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