The Way
The House of Wisdom
The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn
Story
My son, get up. The light of dawn is spreading over the eastern hills. Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out her seven pillars. She has slaughtered her animals, mixed her wine and set her table. And she has sent out her maidservants to call from the highest places of the city.
Let all who are simple turn in here. Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. Leave your simple ways and live; walk in the way of understanding. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
My son, the Wisdom who called to us at the city gate yesterday is calling us to a feast this morning. The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until the full day. Now let's walk that path. The days we walk following wisdom begin new every day.
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Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. Leave your simple ways and live; walk in the way of understanding.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until the full day.
The sayings are fresh renderings of the original meaning in today's language. Text: Prov 9:1–12; 4:18
Background
Proverbs 1–9 ends with the calls of two women: Wisdom, who builds a house of seven pillars on the heights and invites people to her feast (9:1–6), and the woman Folly, who calls from the same heights that stolen water is sweet (9:13–18). Between the two calls stands the saying 'The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom' (9:10), the words with which Proverbs began at 1:7. The New Testament calls Christ 'the wisdom of God' (1 Cor 1:24).
Pause and Reflect
When I hear wise advice, do I open my heart, or do I start making excuses?