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🙏 Discretion will protect you. Proverbs 2:10-11
(2 min read) Proverb of the day visualized
Erick Vargas
June 02, 2023
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Proverb of the day
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
Proverbs 2:10-11
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Meditation
This proverb it's all about how wisdom not only protects you, but guides you. The Hebrew words haskel (prudent behavior) ormah (prudence) and mezimma (discretion) all mean to plan and live strategically. Just as there are moral people who are not wise, so there are visionaries who see where we should go but have little idea of the practical steps for bringing the goal into reality. To be wise is to anticipate problems without falling into either the danger of overconfidence or the paralysis of overcaution. It is to know not only what to do but also when to do it.
A blessing at the wrong time can have the effect of a curse (27:14). While discernment is a form of insight into hearts, discretion is a form of foresight, knowing what kinds of behaviors will lead to what result (22:3). Wisdom is, in one sense, knowing how to be “successful” at something. But it is wrong to mistake worldly sophistication for godly wisdom, as Adam and Eve did (Genesis 3:6). The ultimate wisdom was seen in Jesus, the suffering servant (Isaiah 52:13) whose success was absolute but not of a kind that the worldly sophisticates of his time could recognize.
Prayer
Lord, help us to have discretion in our every day lives and see the dangers in the blessings coming our way.
Application question
Reflect on one time you made a good decision. How did you know it was a good decision?
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