Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today we continue in Proverbs with the Father's instructions to his Son.

He's telling him general truths for what it looks like to live and walk in the fear of the Lord

in ways that engage with God on a level of delight and awe.

Proverbs 4-7 always makes me laugh. It says,

The beginning of wisdom is this. Get wisdom.

Which is kind of like saying,

the way to be taller is this.

Grow.

But it does go to show how circular this can actually feel sometimes.

We talked about this yesterday,

to recognize that you need wisdom is wise. Then you pursue

wisdom and you get wiser and you realize how much more you still have to learn. I've heard a relationship

with God described in much the same way that the closer you get to him

the further you realize you are from him. Maybe you feel that. It's interesting how being

closer to the light of God will illuminate the dark places in us all the more.

We feel conviction about sins that never bothered us before.

We see positive changes and negative attitudes that we used to pride ourselves on. He really does work such a change in us that we can't

access on our own. He does the doing. Romans 1136 addresses this kind of circular spiritual mystery. It says, from him, through him, and to him are all things.

He is the source, supply, and goal. He initiates, sustains, and fulfills all of this wisdom. and work in us. In verses 14 through 15 the dad really doubles down on his advice.

Actually he sex couples down on it. Six times he repeats the way to handle the path

of the wicked. He says, do not enter, do not walk, avoid it, do not go on it, turn away from it, pass on.

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