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Title: The Satisfied Life
Author: Marion Clark
Text: Proverbs 13:20-25
Introduction
How satisfied are you with your life? If a customer representative from God contacted you for a five-minute satisfaction survey, what kind of rating would you give him? Let's compare notes with those of our proverbs today.
Text
20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
There is nothing here to disagree with. Even fools would agree. They would only differ about who are the wise and who the fools. All agree that our companions affect us. We want to be like them, and the more we are with them the more we become like them. At issue here is our ability to choose who really does see the way things are and live the best life.
As we look at the next three verses, keep in mind that they have in mind the Fear-of-the-Lord worldview in which God watches us and watches over us. God is not mentioned, but the premise of both blessing and curse is that they come from the Lord directly or indirectly. As 15:3 notes: "The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good."
21 Disaster pursues sinners,
but the righteous are rewarded with good.
We hear every day in the news of the crooked getting caught and punished. They may be the common criminal caught stealing in a store or the wealthy and respected businessman or government official or even clergyman who is caught after years of unsuspected criminal or immoral behavior. Once a sinner indulges in sin, the rest of their life is spent in covering up their double-life by adding sin upon sin. The more sin they add, the more pressing disaster pursues them.
In contrast, the righteous, who by definition are those who love their neighbor and thus pursues what is right and just and fair for their neighbor-such a person is often rewarded with good, such as praise and awards and advances.
But it is the one who is unspoken of whom the prove ...
Author: Marion Clark
Text: Proverbs 13:20-25
Introduction
How satisfied are you with your life? If a customer representative from God contacted you for a five-minute satisfaction survey, what kind of rating would you give him? Let's compare notes with those of our proverbs today.
Text
20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
There is nothing here to disagree with. Even fools would agree. They would only differ about who are the wise and who the fools. All agree that our companions affect us. We want to be like them, and the more we are with them the more we become like them. At issue here is our ability to choose who really does see the way things are and live the best life.
As we look at the next three verses, keep in mind that they have in mind the Fear-of-the-Lord worldview in which God watches us and watches over us. God is not mentioned, but the premise of both blessing and curse is that they come from the Lord directly or indirectly. As 15:3 notes: "The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good."
21 Disaster pursues sinners,
but the righteous are rewarded with good.
We hear every day in the news of the crooked getting caught and punished. They may be the common criminal caught stealing in a store or the wealthy and respected businessman or government official or even clergyman who is caught after years of unsuspected criminal or immoral behavior. Once a sinner indulges in sin, the rest of their life is spent in covering up their double-life by adding sin upon sin. The more sin they add, the more pressing disaster pursues them.
In contrast, the righteous, who by definition are those who love their neighbor and thus pursues what is right and just and fair for their neighbor-such a person is often rewarded with good, such as praise and awards and advances.
But it is the one who is unspoken of whom the prove ...
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