Proverbs 3:13–20
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
Every day, from the moment you wake up, you are making value judgments. You decide that getting out of bed is better than staying in it. You decide that this shirt is better than that one. You decide that a certain course of action at work is more profitable than another. Our lives are a constant stream of such appraisals. We are always weighing, measuring, and choosing what we believe to be of greater value. The problem is not that we fail to make such judgments, but that we are terrible at it. We are like jewelers who have lost their loupe, merchants who use crooked scales, and art critics who are colorblind. Our fallen nature has corrupted our desires, and our corrupted desires have wrecked our ability to appraise things rightly. We are told by our culture to chase after silver, gold, and pearls, to pursue riches and glory, to seek long life and pleasant ways.