PROFITING FROM PROVERBS

“The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD. All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits. Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established” (Proverbs 16:1-3).

“The preparations of the heart,” in other words, getting it right. Preparing it for life, preparing it for salvation. “The preparations of the heart,” you see, a Christian is the only man that prepares his heart. Did you ever see an unsaved man spend any time on his heart? I’m not talking about his physical heart, I’m talking about his spiritual heart.

“The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.” When a man answers to godly things, it is because God has done something in his heart. If the heart is right, then the tongue will be right. “how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh” (Matthew 12:34).

A man can’t speak good things until he is good on the inside. But unfortunately, man is more interested in justifying his own self. “They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one” (Romans 3:12).

The problem is that man looks on the outside, but God looks upon the heart and knows what is really going on inside there.

“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (II Corinthians 10:3-5).

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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