Posts from March 2025

Bible students are well aware of the emphasis given to wisdom in the book of Proverbs. However, not only is wisdom exalted and encouraged, but numerous references are made to fools. Very often, a contrast between the wise and the foolish is given in the same verse. Consider how fools are described in this inspired book. Fools Oppose Gaining Wisdom. “…fools despise wisdom and instruction” (Prov. 1:7). They don’t think they need either one, but already have all the answers.…

“Casting behind our back” is a figure of speech meaning that something is forgotten, set aside, or left in the past. It suggests that we no longer dwell on it but move forward from that point on. There are indeed some things that should be cast behind our back—mistakes and failures, for example. We cannot erase them, but we must not live in them. Paul wrote, “Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are…

Have you noticed that we are growing older? Of course you have. Everything that lives is getting older. That’s the nature of things and people. You see signs of it everywhere—at the mall, at the doctor’s office, in the church, and even on the college campus. But isn’t it a blessing to grow older, rather than the alternative? As you grow older you realize that age is relative. You look at it differently. When you are a child, thirty is…

The above statement is made often by those who feel dependent on someone else telling them what to do. We tell our children what to do, and then sometimes have to remind them to do it. This may happen even on a secular job when someone does not have the company’s best interest in mind and does as little as he can get by with and still keep the job. Sadly, we find the same situation in the church. It…