Proverbs 11:5
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The book of Proverbs is intensely practical, but it is not a book of disconnected moralisms or tidy bits of fortune cookie advice. It is a description of the world as it actually is. It reveals the grain of the universe, the fundamental architecture of the reality God has made. To read Proverbs is to learn physics, but it is a spiritual physics. There are laws of cause and effect in the moral realm that are as fixed and unyielding as the law of gravity. You can defy them for a season, just as a man can jump from a roof and defy gravity for a few exhilarating seconds. Our text today sets before us one of the central antitheses of Proverbs, and indeed, of the entire Bible. These are not two slightly different lifestyle options, like choosing between two brands of car.