SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION!

Proverbs 1:32-33 NLT
For simpletons turn away from me-to death. Fools are destroyed by their own complacency. [33] But all who listen to me will live in peace, untroubled by fear of harm.”

OBSERVATION!

When you doubt in your mind, the words of Yeshua you are turning your back on Him, and wonder why there are calamities and trials in your walk. You’re turning your back on his promises  

Psalms 91:2
[2]I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

Have you not yet recognized that our Lord will not abandon you, especially at your weakest moments.

Psalms 91:3-4
[3]Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
[4]He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. For this to be a part of our lives, we must draw on our teachings and use the courage it manifests in our hearts to exercise our faith and trust in Yahewa’s teachings.

It is then you will recognize that Yahewa is reaching out to you through those so-called calamities, that he is present to lift you out of the darkness ahead! To bring memories to mind of your foundation and how it was established and who established it.

Psalms 91:5-6
[5]Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
[6]Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

It is necessary for us to examine two features of parental training on which the book of Proverbs lays repeated stress.

First, the need of method in bringing up the young; and second, the way of punishing their delinquencies. Proverbs 22:6

Our spiritual walk has been influenced in likeness to our carnal entry into this domain as babes, in similarity when we are born again as a spirit and are nourished with spiritual milk by the Holy Spirit’s teachings and chastenings by our Heavenly Father as babes so we may continue our journey into spiritual maturity on a solid foundation.

COMMENTARY!

In the first, we have an eternal principle, which applies and must apply as long as human nature endures, a principle that is even emphasized by the demands of our Christian faith.

In the second we have a principle which is so modified and altered by the Christian spirit, that unless we make the largest allowance for the change, it may be, as it often has been, misleading and hurtful in a high degree.

Thus, we surrender unto Yeshua to remove all the dark cruelties and injustice, the vindictiveness, the stupidity of parents, guardians, and teachers, who have sheltered themselves under the authority of the text.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall, drive it far from him,” [Proverbs 22:15] we might read with a new application our Savior’s stern censure of accepting the letter of Scripture in place of coming to Him and learning of Him who is meek and lowly of heart [John 5:39]

OBSERVATION!

But our first duty is to understand the wholesome and eternally valid teaching that is here given us about education “Train up”!

“Train” is derived from a noun that signifies the palate and the inner part of the mouth. Its literal meaning is “to put into the mouth”

The metaphor suggested is that of feeding an infant. Every parent recognizes the necessity of giving to the helpless children suitable nourishment.

At first, the mother feeds the babe at the breast. After the weaning, she still feeds it with food carefully chosen and prepared.

As the child grows older she changes the food, but she does not relax her care; and the father admits the responsibility of procuring the necessary diet for his little one, a responsibility which does not cease until the child is fully grown, fully formed, and fully able to provide for himself. Here is the suitable analogy for mental, moral, and spiritual teaching.

The parents must feed their child with morsels suitable to his age, with the “milk of the word” at first, afterward, with strong meat. It all requires infinite care and forethought and wisdom, for there is a certain way of development, a certain ideal which the child must realize, and if the training be on the lines of that development, according to that “way,” if it is to achieve that ideal, the teaching must all be accurately adapted to the age or stage of development, and to the particular character and disposition of the child.

If the preliminary work of the parents is wisely done, if the influence exercised by them while their child is still entirely in their hands is exactly what it ought to be, there is no fear for the rest of life, “when he is old he will not depart from it.”

It all boils down to a choice on the part of that child, which one of the two paths life is offering will he choose to walk.

The one path is to follow the carnal wisdom entreated or the other path to follow the spiritual teachings of the Holy Spirit. The choice is the individuals to make.

However, knowing the heart of man, he believes he can incorporate and blend a bit of each, only to find himself without courage and doubting the promises and gifts being offered.

The following is the reward for those who believe they can incorporate the two paths.

Proverbs 1:27-28
[27]When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
[28]Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

That fate can be removed through recognizing wisdom is meant not merely as the search but also the discovery; not merely a desire to know, but also a certain body of conceptions ascertained and sufficiently formulated.

Thus there is a unity in the Hebrew Wisdom; the unity is found in the thought of the Creator; all the facts of the physical world, all the problems of human life, are referred to His mind; objective Wisdom is God’s Being, which includes in its circle everything; and subjective wisdom, wisdom in the human mind, consists in becoming acquainted with His Being and all that is contained in it, and meanwhile in constantly admitting that He is, and yielding to Him the rightful place in our thought.

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge”- Proverbs 1:7

Broadly speaking, the Wisdom of the Hebrews covers the whole domain of what we should call science and philosophy.

It is the consistent effort of the human mind to know, to understand, and to explain all that exists. It is to use the modern phrase, the search for truth.

The bottom line in all of this is that it takes courage to meet the chief end of man, which is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.

Robert a humble obedient servant to Yeshua and his Father in heaven Yahewa. And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen.