Proverbs 10:4
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
It is not a collection of esoteric riddles for the spiritually elite, but rather a divine handbook for living in God's world, God's way. It reveals the grain of the universe, the moral fabric woven into creation by the Creator. And because God is the Creator, His moral laws are as fixed and reliable as His physical laws. When Solomon tells us that a slack hand leads to poverty and a diligent hand leads to wealth, he is not offering us a hot stock tip or a bit of folksy motivational advice. It is a description of how the world, under God's governance, actually works. Our modern world, steeped in the marinade of therapeutic sentimentality and victim-culture, recoils from such stark statements. We have been taught to blame our circumstances, our upbringing, our environment, our genetics, or vast, impersonal economic forces for our condition.