PROFITING FROM PROVERBS

"Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer" (Proverbs 25:4 KJV).

When the Holy Ghost has taken away by regeneration, the dross of our fallen nature, and newly forms us in Christ Jesus, then as gold and silver from the furnace, we are brought forth as vessels of honor for the master’s use.

Note that silver is refined through the furnace, and it takes as long as it takes, though it result in much discomfort for the refined. We are that dross, and we are that silver, but praise God, we are also that gold that will one day come forth through God's faithful hand on the potter's wheel and testing and trials designed for our good.

One of my favorite songs sung by Ron Hamilton (aka Patch the Pirate), Rejoice in the Lord has this for a chorus.

O Rejoice in the LORD He makes no mistake, He knoweth the end of each path that I take, For when I am tried And purified, I shall come forth as gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=133GHmrfCx0

“Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross” (Proverbs 26:23).

Dross is the scum of the silver. That’s what has been scraped off the top, it is the impurities of the silver. And burning lips and a wicked heart are like that. They’re ugly.

They are ugly in their reason, for they come out of the wicked heart. That’s the reason that they do it. They are wicked. They are saying things for self-gain or revenge.

They are ugly in their rhetoric, burning lips. As words that burn, words that produce wounds as in verse 22, as coals, as throwing wood on the fire in verse 20.

And they are ugly in their result, dross. It just brings about scum. It brings about ugliness. It doesn't produce anything good.

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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