𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐬 𝟏𝟎:𝟏 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐧. 𝐀 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫: 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬...

It is good to remember who wrote the jewels of wisdom called proverbs. He wrote mainly to his son and young men, so each son should consider his relationship to his parents. Not until he is a parent will he understand the joy and grief he can cause by his choices and actions. Let every young man consider his father, his mother, and His heavenly Father.Solomon wrote the proverbs in the Bible, including this one. You are blessed to have the world’s wisest king as your personal advisor. And God inspired the selection of these few from the three thousand he wrote (I Kgs 4:32). The righteous can rejoice for having secret wisdom from heaven concisely defined and applied in short, pithy statements for them and their families. Thank you, God, for your divine library in the Bible and for Proverbs.The world can make fun of the Bible all they want. Let them look to monkeys as their ancestors, debt as their economic panacea, unruly children as their future, lazy employees as their work force, corrupt officials as their government, liberated professional women as wives and mothers, transgender body mutilation as precious, and global warming as their project. The handwriting of disaster is already on the wall, and it will only get worse. Believers will rule in the end! Soon (Rom 8:17-23; I Cor 3:21-23; Rev 22:12)!The first nine chapters are introductory, with long and continuing instruction contrasting divine wisdom to sinful folly. With this verse here, you are introduced to what are more properly proverbs – short and unconnected sentences setting forth profound wisdom for every part of life. While the whole book is proverbs, here are the individual jewels deserving your rapt attention as you examine them carefully to enjoy every facet.The first one you have, in this verse, points to the value of godly training for the joy and deliverance of parents. If these proverbs are taught and required of children, such parents will realize the full blessing of a godly seed for God’s glory and their great pleasure. If these proverbs are neglected, the future is bleak, with calamitous heaviness instead.Child, have you thought about your parents today? They each lived your life before you were born. So way back then, they were together twice as wise as you are now! Since your birth, they have accumulated much more wisdom and experience, while you took years learning not to mess on yourself and to get food in your mouth instead of your ear. You are so far behind it is scary to allow you to have any thoughts. Believe it, or suffer.Your dear mother was nauseated, hot, and heavy as she carried you, but she already loved you and had wonderful thoughts for your life, as she decorated the nursery at home. Pregnancy, birth, and nursing took a toll on her body, yet she constantly doted on you. She cleaned your messes and fed you many times daily, and all you did was cry for more.Later, when you struggled to make a tricycle, then a bicycle, work, your father managed his soul, his marriage, his job, his finances, his house, his car, and you, among many other things. He generated you, chose and provided for your mother, and daily invested in you, hoping for a wise and righteous son, who would grow in favor with God and man.