Posted on 07/11/2022 11:33:10 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish” (Proverbs 12:1).
Do you love to be taught? Do you love to be corrected? Do you love to be told you are wrong? Do you appreciate those who tell you how it ought to be done? Are you thankful for reminders to change? Wise and noble men and women will strongly answer, “Yes!”
If you do not like to be taught, you are like an animal. If you chafe under correction, you are like a beast. If you resent being told you are wrong, you are an irrational brute.
Brutish. Of or pertaining to the brutes, or lower animals, as opposed to man. Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the brutes: in want of intelligence or in failure to use reason: dull, irrational, uncultured, stupid.
Thank you, Preacher Solomon, for not being politically correct. Thank you for teaching plainly that resisting instruction is foolish and brutish. Thank you for commanding men to love instruction and reproof by this proverb. Reader, do not be base like brute animals .
“Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee” (Psalms 32:9).
“A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back” (Proverbs 26:3).
Rise up to thank God for sending teachers to instruct and reprove you.
The knowledge you get, makes the reproof that comes with the instruction, worth it. You know that “whom the Lord loveth He chastenth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth” (Hebrews 12:6), and it says at the end of that scourging, that there is a fruit that's born, by someone that's exercised by that chastening and that's what this is. The easiest kind of chastening to take is a tongue lashing. It sure beats the woodshed experience.
So that’s the advantage that we have when we subject ourselves to sound preaching, but most of us still wind up in woodshed once in a while. But, as far as church is considered, one of the things that's not appreciated very much this day and time is that if you come to church and get fed from the word of God, and get encouraged, and get admonished; and all those positive things; and be loved and have fellowship and make friends, which is that's all part of it; there is always the element of being convicted by the word. At the same time, if you come and will take a tongue lashing and take the chastening of the Lord and verbally learn from it, correct the direction; then perhaps you can be spared some of those trips to the woodshed.
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