Proverbs: Chapter 2

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/a-disciplined-life-proverbs-2/"><strong>website</strong></a>.</p><p>Some salient points:</p><ul><li>Wisdom is a true treasure.</li><li>The Lord wants us to be successful. This depends on our being upright.</li><li>Understanding follows having a right attitude.</li><li>When knowledge is pleasant to us, we will take joy in learning, meditating, reading...</li><li>Notice the contrast in Proverbs between the crooked and the upright. Crooked words, crooked paths, crooked people (2:15; 8:8; 10:9). As C.S. Lewis put it, the crooked are actually "bent" -- not upright. Someone else said "Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and men crooked."</li><li>Wisdom will keep us from bad company (the group mentioned early in chapter 1).</li><li>It will also protect us from the Adulteress -- the 2nd of the key women in Proverbs.</li><li>At the end, only those who choose wisely will remain. The wicked have no permanent place.</li></ul><p>Challenge of the day:  <strong>Seek wisdom as a treasure</strong>.</p>