The subject of Proverbs is, or the purpose, I should say, is understanding general truths about the world and wisely navigating it.

Understanding general truths about the world and wisely navigating it.

How do you get through life? How do you go from A to B?

My daughter was in here just a moment ago. She's pretty close to that A portion of life, right?

She hasn't had a lot of experiences yet.

She's starting to learn things. Certain things are hot. She shouldn't touch that.

It hurts when you fall down. It actually isn't that fun, right? There's things she's learning to

avoid. There's things she's learning to embrace. It's good when mommy has food, right? It's good

when daddy comes home and he wants to play

with me. She's learning very basic things like that. And the older she'll get, she'll learn more and

more, just like all of us do. But how is she going to go from A to B, right? The same way we all do, right?

We go through life. Sometimes it feels like life is just taking us for the ride right but we're actually making progress we are we're heading towards something right and that's something for the believers is eventually we're going to be what we'll hear well done thou good and faithful servant and will be embraced by our lord and savior jesus christ but that time, when we're embraced by Christ and when we're born,

there's a lot of decisions to navigate.

And most of those decisions include other people.

They include working with others.

They include relationships of some kind, associations.

And so Solomon writes this, trying to give us a general template, a general truth,

general truths, plural, about how to navigate all those different decisions. And it's, of course,

it's to us, it's in the scripture, but Solomon had, I think, a more direct intention, a more

narrow view here. He wanted to write this specifically for

his son, Rehoboam, who would be a future king. So this is the wisdom that is given to a king,

available to us. He says in Proverbs chapter 1 verse 8, hear my son, your father's instruction. This is a father lovingly telling his son,

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