Proverbs 3:1–12
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a deeply sentimental and profoundly foolish age. Our culture has enthroned the autonomous self as the ultimate arbiter of all truth. But what the Scriptures teach, and what two minutes of honest self-examination ought to confirm, is that this is the pathway to ruin. The modern world wants to build a civilization on the presupposition that every man is his own god, defining his own reality, creating his own morality, and charting his own course. This is not a new idea; it is the oldest lie in the book, whispered in a garden. To tell a man to trust his own heart is like telling a ship captain to navigate by the shifting winds instead of the fixed stars. Our hearts, apart from the grace of God, are factories of idols and fountains of deceit (Jer.