Proverbs 10:3
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The book of Proverbs is not a collection of inspirational quotes for your coffee mug. It is not a book of bland platitudes that might be true if you squint hard enough. Proverbs is a description of how the world actually works because it is a description of how God made the world to work. It is a divine instruction manual on the grain of the universe. To live with the grain is to be righteous, and that is wisdom. To live against the grain is to be wicked, and that is folly. The results of these two paths are not arbitrary; they are baked into the created order. We live in an age that desperately wants to have its cake and eat it too. It wants the fruit of righteousness, things like prosperity, stability, and meaning, but it wants to get there by the path of wickedness.