AN INVITATION TO A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD (14)
Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-18
This content is part of a series.
An Invitation to a Relationship with God (14)
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Proverbs 9:1-18
Introduction
For those of you who had no idea what you were just watching, let me catch you up. Beginning in March 2002 America was taken by storm by a new reality T.V. show called 'The Bachelor.' In this show you'd have a single man, the bachelor, who would be essentially dating twenty some women at one time, each week narrowing down the pool to hopefully eventually arrive at one woman, the love of his life. It's really America at its best, I'd argue; there have been many spin-off series and though the national craze around the show has died down in recent years, to my knowledge, the show is still on T.V. and going strong.
The most climatic point of the show would come each week, though, in what was called the rose ceremony. (I know most of you know what I'm talking about...you're just pretending right now not to) But in this ceremony, the bachelor would give roses away each week to the women he wanted to continue to date, but all of this would really just build up to the drama of when the final rose lay waiting. As you saw in the clip a moment ago, the host of the show would come out and point out the obvious, that this was the final rose, and then the bachelor would stand and contemplate his final choice before revealing his choice.
Now, of course, it's T.V. so the whole thing was very orchestrated and scripted, but it was done so for the purpose of calling attention to this great last choice that the young man must make. And though it was all dramatized for the purpose of entertainment, this final rose and choice reminds me of Proverbs 9. As I shared with you when we began our study of Proverbs, the first nine chapters of the book are an introduction to wisdom. They themselves are more about calling us to pursue wisdom then they are about imparting wisdom itself. Proverbs 10 and following will foc ...
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Proverbs 9:1-18
Introduction
For those of you who had no idea what you were just watching, let me catch you up. Beginning in March 2002 America was taken by storm by a new reality T.V. show called 'The Bachelor.' In this show you'd have a single man, the bachelor, who would be essentially dating twenty some women at one time, each week narrowing down the pool to hopefully eventually arrive at one woman, the love of his life. It's really America at its best, I'd argue; there have been many spin-off series and though the national craze around the show has died down in recent years, to my knowledge, the show is still on T.V. and going strong.
The most climatic point of the show would come each week, though, in what was called the rose ceremony. (I know most of you know what I'm talking about...you're just pretending right now not to) But in this ceremony, the bachelor would give roses away each week to the women he wanted to continue to date, but all of this would really just build up to the drama of when the final rose lay waiting. As you saw in the clip a moment ago, the host of the show would come out and point out the obvious, that this was the final rose, and then the bachelor would stand and contemplate his final choice before revealing his choice.
Now, of course, it's T.V. so the whole thing was very orchestrated and scripted, but it was done so for the purpose of calling attention to this great last choice that the young man must make. And though it was all dramatized for the purpose of entertainment, this final rose and choice reminds me of Proverbs 9. As I shared with you when we began our study of Proverbs, the first nine chapters of the book are an introduction to wisdom. They themselves are more about calling us to pursue wisdom then they are about imparting wisdom itself. Proverbs 10 and following will foc ...
There are 23396 characters in the full content. This excerpt only shows a 2000 character sample of the full content.
Price: $5.99 or 1 credit
