We close out the week with a very commonly asked question in the minds of many Christians,

and it's a question that you, Pastor John, are asked a lot on the road, and it's one

of the most common questions we get from our listener emails as well.

Here it is, if I read my Bible, but I don't feel anything in my affections that resonates

with the worth and the value and the preciousness of the words of what those words communicate

to me, is there anything I can do next, or do I just have to wait and let the experience

happen to me in the future?

How would you answer such a question?

Well, I am so glad for the question because it is something that I've been thinking about

recently so much because I've been meditating on a section of the Book of Proverbs, and I

think this section of the Book of Proverbs is introduced by the inspired writer precisely

to answer that question, so the section is Proverbs 22 17 down to 24 22, I think it goes,

and it's a section.

In fact, I'll just pause here, no, I won't, you can pause, so push pause if you want to

go get your Bible because I'm going to get everything I have to say from about three lines

in verses 17 and 18 of Proverbs 22, so get your Bible, okay, now you've got your Bible,

and the section runs from 22 17 down to 24 22, and it's called, if you look at the end

of verse 20, it says, have I not written for you 30 sayings?

Now those 30 sayings are found in 22 17 to 24 22 in groupings, some Bibles break the groupings

out for you, so every time a new theme starts, there's a new saying, and there are 30 of them

in this unit, and in verse 17 is where they start, and it says, incline your ear and hear

the words of the wise, so these are usually entitled the words of the wise.

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