God is saying that if you cannot, or will not, focus your physical strength to accomplish the crucial task at hand, then you are not as stro

We have a tendency to not think that we do this unwise thing. But God does not allow Solomon to record things that will not be true across c

Making decisions between what is good and what is best.

Avoid becoming a world-class procrastinator.

Proverbs 18:9 "He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys." The word slack is the Hebrew word rapeh and means to sink down, a weakening of the hands, even a dropping or less than full force. Solomon is telling us a correlation that we would not readily make. The one who gives a minimal effort is related to the person who destroys because destruction will result from giving less than the best. There is a family resemblance between minimal effort and being

Proverbs 31:8 "Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the unfortunate" It is incumbent upon the Christian leader to give voice to those who have no voice. There will always be plenty of people who have access and power in a society or organization. It the decidedly godly thing to do to contemplate the rights of those who don't have access or power. What are the people without power wanting people in this organization to understand, realize, come to terms with? Ch

Proverbs 6:8 "Prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provision in the harvest" Prepares is the Hebrew word kun which means at its root to bring something into being with the result that its existence is a certainty. Clearly the idea here is that the ant should be studied because it collects its resources over the summertime and then has the provisions to exist when there is not provision. Notice that we are to study this process and realize that we must work hard at