Proverbs 10:12
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
Every community, every church, every family, and every nation is built according to one of two architectural blueprints. The first is the way of Babel, and the second is the way of Pentecost. The first is the way of man, and the second is the way of God. The book of Proverbs is intensely practical, and it boils down these grand, sweeping, historical movements into the daily interactions between you and your neighbor. It shows us that the great wars of history are simply the small wars of the heart, writ large. Our text today presents us with this fundamental choice. It is a spiritual fork in the road, and we take one path or the other with every word we speak about others, with every thought we entertain about a brother who has wronged us. This proverb is about the social physics of God's moral universe.