Proverbs 6:1–5
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a world that has made a peace treaty with traps. Our entire modern economy, from the personal to the national, is a vast and intricate network of snares, baited with the promise of instant gratification. We have governments that mortgage the future of our grandchildren to pay for today's bread and circuses. And we have a culture that encourages young people to chain themselves to decades of student loan debt before they have even earned their first real paycheck. We sign our names to things we cannot afford, making promises about a future we do not control, and we call it financial planning. But the book of Proverbs is a bucket of cold, clear water thrown into the face of such foolishness. It does not speak the language of therapeutic consumerism. It speaks the language of reality, the language of a world created and governed by a holy God.