Proverbs 10:24
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The book of Proverbs is not a collection of inspirational quotes for your coffee mug. It describes the fundamental grain of the universe, the moral law of cause and effect that God has hardwired into the fabric of reality. To read Proverbs is to understand how the world actually works, not how our therapeutic, sentimental, and rebellious age wishes it worked. It wants everything to be a spectrum, a shade of gray, a matter of personal preference. And in our text today, Solomon boils down the emotional and practical destination of these two paths into one sharp, clean antithesis. The wicked are governed by their dreads, and the righteous are defined by their desires. One is a life of running from a guilty conscience; the other is a life of running toward a glorious inheritance. One is a life of inevitable implosion; the other is a life of guaranteed fulfillment.