Tag: proverbs

A Life Understanding Life

The Bible says that the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. We all long for understanding. Have you ever said to yourself, “I don’t understand” or “I wish I understood”?

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. Proverbs 9:10

When we don’t know what to do we lack understanding.

For they are a nation lacking in counsel, And there is no understanding in them. Deuteronomy 32:28

Understanding is a very interesting characteristic. It can be gained and it can be lost.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; He who keeps understanding will find good. Proverbs 19:8

Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the understanding. Hosea 4:11

Understanding has many benefits and without it much grief is experienced. It gives life and can bring about death.

Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, Proverbs 16:22

But fools die for lack of understanding. Proverbs 10:21b

To the Lord belongs understanding.

With Him are wisdom and might; To Him belong counsel and understanding. Job 12:13

Understanding produces favor for the one who has it. Without it life is hard.

Good understanding produces favor, But the way of the treacherous is hard. Proverbs 13:15

Understanding makes knowledge easy. A scoffer is one who turns their back on God and does not seek Him, therefore he lacks in understanding.

A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none, But knowledge is easy to one who has understanding. Proverbs 14:6

Understanding is more valuable than silver.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen above silver. Proverbs 16:16

Whether building a house, a life, a career, a marriage, a business or any other endeavor it is only by understanding that it will be established.

By wisdom a house is built, And by understanding it is established; Proverbs 24:3

A lack of understanding brings about ruin.

So the people without understanding are ruined. Hosea 4:14b

If we want understanding then we must depart from evil. Another word for departing from evil is repentance, which means turning from doing what is wrong and turning to the Lord. We can’t have both good and bad. We can’t continue doing what we know is wrong and experience good through having understanding.

And to man He said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding. Job 28:28

The Lord does not despise any but wants to give to all understanding, if they will only come to Him then He will give understanding.

Behold, God is mighty but does not despise any; He is mighty in strength of understanding. Job 36:5

God’s Word gives understanding.

The unfolding of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple. Psalm 119:130

God’s understanding is infinite.

Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite. Psalm 147:5

There is nothing beyond His understanding. Do you want to understand yourself or your spouse or life or death? Do you long for resolution in certain areas that you don’t understand? Are you weary of trying to figure things out on your own? Come to Jesus. He is calling you.

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 22:28-30

A Life Married to a King

How sweet it is to be married to a king. Every woman who is married to a king is a queen. It is an honor and a privilege to be married to a king. It is the wife who makes her husband a king. The Bible says that an excellent wife is the crown of her husband.

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, Proverbs 12:4a

Any wife can be married to a king but it is the wife who determines the kingship of her husband. She is the one who enthrones her husband. She enthrones her husband with her praise.

Yet You are holy, You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel. Psalm 22:3

The wife is to be a picture of God’s people, the church. Just as the Lord delights in the praise of His people so a husband delights in the praise of his wife. It is pleasant to him and becoming to her.

Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant and praise is becoming. Psalm 147:1

An excellent wife is a wife who does her husband good all of the days of her life. Her praise does her husband good and encourages and stimulates him to become the husband that the Lord designed him to be.

An excellent wife, who can find?
For her worth is far above jewels.
The heart of her husband trusts in her,
And he will have no lack of gain.
She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life. Proverbs 31:10-12

When a wife is an excellent wife then she increases her worth to her husband and her own self worth grows as she becomes the wife that God designed her to be. Her worth is far above jewels. Her husband will trust in her and he will treat her like a queen, as every wife longs to be treated.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. Proverbs 16:24

Praise is pleasant to a man. Her husband will love to be with her when her words are pleasant. It will keep him from the temptations of an adulteress woman who flatters with her lips. Praise and flattery sound the same but it is the motive. Praise is to build up and flattery is to manipulate. A man needs praise and will go where he is praised. However, he can not see through the manipulations of the flattery of an adulteress.

To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words; Proverbs 2:16

The opposite of praise is shame. A wife who shames her husband is bitterness to him. It is rottenness to his bones. It is difficult for a man to be around a wife who shames him. He will have no joy and will want to escape.

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, But she who shames him is like rottenness in his bones. Proverbs 12:4

A man has given a woman the greatest honor when he proposes marriage to her. He is asking her to be his queen. Every man wants to be a king and he wants to marry the woman he proposes to because he thinks that she loves him and will honor and respect him. If for no other reason a wife should honor her husband with praise by wanting him to be a king because he has first honored her in asking her to be his queen.