Uncommon Wisdom: A Gold Ring In A Pig's Snout

Today we are in the second week of our worship series “Uncommon Wisdom.” Our society’s current strategies for success appear to be exploitation, violence, and smear campaigns. But I’m confident we can all agree that this is not the way God would have it. So in this series, we are looking at the seemingly uncommon wisdom of Proverbs, which shows us another, God-centered, path to the good life. Every day we are faced with the same decision those first humans had in the Garden of Eden: how do we gain the wisdom to discern between good and evil? Do we do what seems good to us—what we desire in the moment or seems to benefit us most? Or do we look to God, the One who knows the long-game, and how all things fit together? It seems like an easy answer, but it’s much more difficult in the moment. That’s where the book of Proverbs comes in. It’s a collection of 100s of short sayings that apply wisdom and fear of the Lord—awe and reverence towards God—to any topic you can imagine—friendship, marriage, generosity, work, money, forgiveness… the list goes on. It’s a book for every person in every season of life. And so each week, we will take a look at one or two proverbs and see what morsel of God’s wisdom they have to share.