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PROVERBS 3

TRUST IN GOD’S WAYS ABOVE YOUR OWN

Solomon writes that God’s teaching will add years to your life and peace in your heart. To remember God’s commandments, Solomon says to bind His Word around your neck and write them on the tablet of your heart, keeping God’s Word near to you.

Solomon advises trusting in the Lord with all your heart and not leaning on your own understanding. Solomon knows that God’s ways are better than his own and that God is trustworthy. God’s instruction is healing to the flesh and refreshing to the bones.

Solomon is very wealthy but values wisdom over everything. He writes that gaining wisdom and understanding is better than silver, gold, and precious jewels. The chapter continues by challenging the reader to honor God with their wealth, saying that they will have an abundance if they are generous. The wise do not withhold good from those who deserve it and do not send away those in need. As seen throughout Scripture, God will scorn the wicked, but give favor to the humble.

God disciplines and corrects those He loves, so we should not be weary of God’s reproof. Because of God’s wisdom, the wise do not have to be afraid of the future or sudden calamity. Instead, the wise will sleep well, knowing that God will provide.

STUDY QUESTIONS

• Read Proverbs 3:1-4. What does it mean to bind love and faithfulness around your neck and write them on the tablet of your heart?
• Why do you think wisdom is personified as a woman?
• How does this honor women in a culture that highly favored men?