Quick Overview: Ultimately, lies always deceive the liar. If we want to succeed in our goals and survive in our conflicts, we must learn to listen to good advice. There are some people who cannot be trusted to pay their debts and will eventually meet disaster; here are two of them.
Proverbs Practicals 97 Proverbs 20 - Detailed Overview & Context
Ultimately, lies always deceive the liar. If we want to succeed in our goals and survive in our conflicts, we must learn to listen to good advice. There are some people who cannot be trusted to pay their debts and will eventually meet disaster; here are two of them. Character becomes action, and action becomes reputation. Healing often hurts. Medicine often tastes bad. Discipline doesn't feel good, but it often results in moral improvement. Keeping our commitments is a huge part of being godly. This means that we should be very careful in making those commitments.
Those who get rich quick rarely stay rich long. The best advice is rarely the easiest to find nor the most obvious to see. It takes effort to get to the heart of wisdom. God can use our moral nature to help us examine ourselves, and we should be seeking God's illumination of our heart and ways. There are two key qualities which establish someone in a position of authority. Among the things God really hates is dishonesty in business. When the wealthiest man in the world describes something as a jewel more valuable than gold or a multitude of rubies, we should ...
The patterns of behavior that we sow can be reaped for good even in the generations to come. Dishonoring our heritage can limit our legacy. 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.
