Proverbs 10:2
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The book of Proverbs is intensely practical, but it is not a book of moralistic platitudes for becoming a slightly better version of yourself. It is not a collection of fortune cookie inserts for the religiously inclined. No, the book of Proverbs lays before us the two great, antithetical paths that a man can walk. There are no third options, no neutral territories, no demilitarized zones between these two kingdoms. And here, in this tenth chapter, Solomon begins a long series of sharp, contrasting couplets. He holds up two ways of handling your money, two ways of building a life, two ultimate outcomes, and he forces you to choose. He is setting before us a fundamental law of spiritual economics. Our text today is about the difference between true and false wealth, between a portfolio that endures and one that is destined for eternal bankruptcy.