Day 152 - Proverbs & Colossians

Whoever gets sense loves his own soul;

he who keeps understanding will discover good. (Proverbs 19:8 ESV)

This text is very fitting with Paul’s prayer in Colossians 1 (which we will be looking at more tomorrow morning on the Lord’s Day). In the NASB “sense” is translated as wisdom and so you see the correlation with Colossians 1:9: And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray fro you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding…

I love seeing these connections throughout Scripture. The Bible is not some disjointed work of multiple men, but the unified work of God as he, by the Spirit, inspired men to write these words. The Scriptures we hold in our hands everyday are the very words of God to us. So let’s learn from them. Let’s submit our hearts to these words and strive to be those who live by them (by the power of the Spirit).

Westminster Larger Catechism Q. 4. How doth it appear that the Scriptures are the Word of God?

A. The Scriptures manifest themselves to be the Word of God, by their majesty and purity; by the consent of all the parts, and the scope of the whole, which is to give all glory to God; by their light and power to convince and convert sinners, to comfort and build up believers unto salvation: but the Spirit of God bearing witness by and with the Scriptures in the heart of man, is alone able fully to persuade it that they are the very Word of God.