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Discipleship Focus: Guidance
- Guidance: God grants us His guidance. Sometimes this guidance is God leading us away from temptation. Sometimes this guidance is helping us to follow in a direction for which He has chosen. Our default position should be to wait for God’s guidance and then follow when it comes.
When we
look at this chapter, we hear Solomon saying again and again to listen to his
words. He exhorts his son to hear them
and not stray from them. Essentially,
What Solomon is doing here is trying to provide guidance for his son. He is trying to provide access to good
decision making even when he isn’t around to be a part of the discernment
process.
But isn’t
that what wisdom is all about? If we
think about it, don’t we usually use the term “wise” to represent a person who
can help us make reasonable decisions?
Doesn’t the term wisdom seem to naturally pair up with guidance? Would any of us seek guidance from someone
with a reputation of being unwise? Would
anyone of us label someone as being wise if they repeatedly give us bad advice?
So this
is the fundamental premise of Solomon in this book. He wants his son to have access to wisdom all
of his life. He wants his son to learn
how to develop certain precepts that will keep him in the company of
wisdom. He wants his son to understand
how to make wisdom a lifelong partner so that he will never lack the guidance
that he will need to get through life.
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