Proverbs: Chapter 3

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website.Salient points:Keeping the commands in our hearts, or writing them on the tablet of our hearts, isn’t just scripture memory; it’s obedience.Trusting in the Lord – really letting go – is hard!Straight paths means not that life is easy, but that we are doing right morally – on the straight and narrow.Honoring God with our wealth includes resisting materialism. See Amos 6:1-7; Prov 1:19.Vs. 11-12, cited in Heb 12, encourages us not to take God’s correction lightly or too hard.The “tree of life,” from Gen 3, reappears four times in Proverbs and 4x in Revelation.“Watery depths” is the sea beneath the earth (in the ancient cosmology).3:27-28 are similar to a passage in ch 24.The final verses: Mocking proud mockers – opposing the proud – but showing favor / grace to the humble (and oppressed) is cited a number of times in the NT.Challenge of the day: Humility. Let go and let God…Next lesson: Proverbs 4, another chapter highlighting fundamental heart issues important for developing a disciplined life.