Verse 7 - You have a choice. You can be full with the things of the world or hungry for the Word of God. To be stuffed with earthly things will give you no lasting happiness, but to hunger and thirst after the things of God will bring joy, peace, and contentment.Verse 8 - There are two ways we can

Verse 1 - How many people put off learning about Christ, reading His Word, and believing in Him till tomorrow. ‘Another day will do,’ they say, ‘when I am older and not so busy.’ ‘When I have children’; ‘when I get out of school’; ‘when I feel like it’. So many excuses. And then tomorrow never comes. Sudden death or

Verses 20-22 - If we want to stop the fire of quarrels and arguments, we need to deal with the gossip. We must remove him; stop him in his words; make him produce evidence; confront him with who he is gossiping about. This should prevent slander and put him to shame. Just as bad is a quarrelsome man. He is

Verse 12 - It’s so easy to lie to ourselves - to think we are wiser and more Godly than we really are. We need to pray that God will keep us from deluding ourselves. That He will pull down our pride and imagined wisdom. That He will take the blindness from our eyes, so we will know who we

Verse 3 - The fool does not listen to reason or persuasion. They are selfish, full of pride. They need the rod, and they have it. Discipline is the test. What is the fruit? In the true child of God, discipline drives him to Christ, to obey and to love. In the fool, discipline leads to hardness and rebellion.Verses 4-5

Verse 26 - When a servant of God gives way to the wicked, his testimony is terribly damaged. Satan makes more effective use of God’s people than of his own. Faithfulness so rubs unbelievers the wrong way, that at any hint of inconsistency or hypocrisy, they are overjoyed. None of us stand or act alone, but we all have other

Verses 21-22 - Circumstances may keep us from retaliating against our enemy. They may be out of our reach, or too great to offend. But the grudge remains. We think of him only in connection with how he has offended us. We determine our conduct toward him by his toward us. And if we ever return good for evil, we

Verse 16 - Enjoy your earthly blessings with self-control. They are gifts from God, but they are never to be put in the place of God. We aren’t safe in loving anything else if we haven’t fixed our love first on God.Verse 17 - Without mutual respect and thoughtfulness, even the closest friendship can be in trouble. But thankfully there

Verses 8-10 - Hasty strife is always wrong. Think well beforehand whether your case is right, and even if it is, whether it’s worth fighting for. Think about the uncertainty and consequences of what you plan to do. If an argument is inevitable, then do it honourably. Show that you are not disputing for the fun of it, but that

Verses 30-34 - If a neglected field is a sad sight, how much worse a neglected soul - a sign of a spiritually lazy man. It is overgrown with the thorns of sin. Time, talents, and opportunities have been wasted. They are asleep to the things of God, and Satan wanders in and out of their hearts at will. Does