Scripture

Those who trust in themselves are fools, but those who walk in wisdom are kept safe.

~Proverbs 28:26, NIV

Quote

To ignore God’s word and wisdom is to run aground on the rocks of foolishness and bring unnecessary pain to yourself and to those around you.

~Max Anders {Holman Commentary}

We are in Proverbs on Wednesday night and I am loving the study. I will be using Proverbs 4:23 tonight, “Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.” After reading my commentaries, I decided to study the uses of the Hebrew word lave which is translated more than 500 times as “heart” and it is found 93 times in Proverbs. So I decided to look at the verses in Proverbs that use this word ‘heart’. I don’t have room to share them all but here are a few:

• The cunning heart–7:10
• The wise heart–10:8
• The worthless heart–10:20
• The deceitful heart–12:20
• The anxious heart–12:25
• The merry, joyful, cheerful, glad heart–14:13, 15:13, 15:15, 17:22, 27:9
• The proud/haughty heart–16:15, 21:4, 18:12
• The perverse heart–6:14, 18, 11:20, 12:8, 17:20
• The bitter heart–14:10
• The tranquil/peaceful heart–14:33
• The angry heart–19:3
• The pure heart–20:9, 22:11
• The foolish heart–22:15
• The troubled heart–25:20
• The wicked heart–26:21
• The hard heart–28:14

Proverbs 28:26 in the NASB reads, “He who trust in his heart {self} is a fool.” This brought to my mind Jeremiah 17:5,“Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the Lord.” You cannot leave out verse 9 in this conversation: The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.Who can understand it? Don’t trust your heart; it will deceive you. Do not follow your emotions; they will misguide you. Base all decisions on God’s word, the leadership of the Holy Spirit, prayer and the counsel of good Christian friends.

Have you ever followed your heart and got what you wanted only to discover later, it really wasn’t what you wanted. Learn from the experience and stop trusting the heart. It is totally unreliable. Notice, Jeremiah mentions the basic sin that goes all the way back to the garden,“Turning away from the LORD.”

Extra

Cool and brisk this morning. Perfect weather. My office is a little too cool in the morning but I can put on my hoody and in the evening, it is just right. No A/C or heat needed.

If you need more proof that liberals are idiots, June tells me they are now blaming Trump for the hurricane. He staged his assissanation attempts and now he has caused the hurricanes. Folks you have to be insane to believe this stuff. There is a word for it but I refuse to use it.

DBC has two trucks leaving this am for North Carolina. I know they are carrying water, I don’t know what else.

Enjoy this beautiful weather and have a good Wednesday.