New Covenant Community Church

Proverbs 2

3 Cry out for insight and ask for understanding.
4 Search for them as you would for silver; seek them like hidden treasures.
5 Then you will understand what it means to fear the LORD, and you will gain knowledge of God.
Kevin’s Take Away: Yesterday we talked about the “Fear of the Lord.” Today Soloman tells us that asking God for understanding and searching out His truth will give us the correct reverent fear.

Proverbs 30

2 I am too stupid to be human, and I lack common sense.
3 I have not mastered human wisdom, nor do I know the Holy One.
4 Who but God goes up to heaven and comes back down? Who holds the wind in his fists?
Who wraps up the oceans in his cloak?
Who has created the whole wide world?
What is his name—and his son’s name?
Tell me if you know!

Kevin’s Take Away: When we consider God and His creation the reality, even though it is hard to fully understand, that while God is outside time and space, He entered time and space in the form on a man as Jesus. When we consider Him, we should feel stupid. I’m back to Life Truth #1 I don’t know what I don’t.

Proverbs 30

19 Words alone will not discipline a servant;
the words may be understood, but they are not heeded.

Kevin’s Take Away: Kevin’s Life Truth #4 ALL Choices have consequences. Good, Bad and Unintended. I’m not sure when as a society we got away from real accountability for bad behavior. I think it has been a slow gradual drift off course. God always follows through with the consequences of disobedience. Without consequences, behavior rarely changes. When we are consistent in setting boundaries and holding people accountable with actions not words, then behavior changes and life is much more enjoyable.

Why, because there is freedom in the protection/safety that boundaries provide.