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Friday! Proverbs!
A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.
Proverbs 17:10 ESV
Ok so yes I want to be a person of "understanding", i.e. not a fool.
That means I need to be prepared to listen.
Really listen
And make changes as a result of that listening.
This proverb is doing what it's saying... rebuking.
The hundred blows?
That's about the outside. I can get hardened to that, conditioned to that, so that it does not affect my heart.
So does that mean I must take to heart what everyone tells me?
Clearly not as we'd just get tossed around like a cork in the ocean...we need something else to anchor our thoughts...and anchor our hearts...and the only thing that can be is the immovable and the unchangeable.
Truth has one source.
And this proverb takes us back there to hear the rebuke and to weigh it against God's truth.
(Often the rebuke comes from God's word so the loop is closed!)
The wise take to heart the rebuke of truth and that brings change...
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