Quick Overview: Keeping our commitments is a huge part of being godly. This means that we should be very careful in making those commitments. There are things about our path and our future that we can't possibly know. Perhaps we should rather focus on what we can know. Healing often hurts. Medicine often tastes bad. Discipline doesn't feel good, but it often results in moral improvement.
Proverbs Practicals 105 Proverbs 20 - Detailed Overview & Context
Keeping our commitments is a huge part of being godly. This means that we should be very careful in making those commitments. There are things about our path and our future that we can't possibly know. Perhaps we should rather focus on what we can know. Healing often hurts. Medicine often tastes bad. Discipline doesn't feel good, but it often results in moral improvement. Ultimately, lies always deceive the liar. There are two key qualities which establish someone in a position of authority. If we want to succeed in our goals and survive in our conflicts, we must learn to listen to good advice.
Character becomes action, and action becomes reputation. Among the things God really hates is dishonesty in business. There are some people who cannot be trusted to pay their debts and will eventually meet disaster; here are two of them. God can use our moral nature to help us examine ourselves, and we should be seeking God's illumination of our heart and ways. The things which impress us and are important to us gradually shift as we age. Do we think the one who made the eye will be blind to what we do and what happens to us?
541# Can you SPARE 2 minutes with God? Proverbs 20:5
