Proverbs 10:29
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The book of Proverbs is not a collection of fortune cookie inserts for a vaguely spiritual life. And at the heart of this wisdom is a great, unyielding antithesis. There are two ways to live, and only two. There is the way of wisdom and the way of folly. The way of integrity and the way of iniquity. It prefers the grey fog of relativism, where everyone is mostly good and all paths eventually lead to the same comfortable destination. God draws a bright, sharp line through the center of humanity, and this proverb places that line in stark relief. We are told that there is a way of Yahweh. This is not a set of abstract principles, but a path, a road, a way of conducting one's entire life. To walk in this way is to walk with the grain, to live in accordance with how things actually are.