Media Summary: Keeping our commitments is a huge part of being godly. This means that we should be very careful in making those commitments. There are things about our path and our future that we can't possibly know. Perhaps we should rather focus on what we can know. Healing often hurts. Medicine often tastes bad. Discipline doesn't feel good, but it often results in moral improvement.
Proverbs Practicals 105 Proverbs 20 - Detailed Analysis & Overview
Keeping our commitments is a huge part of being godly. This means that we should be very careful in making those commitments. There are things about our path and our future that we can't possibly know. Perhaps we should rather focus on what we can know. Healing often hurts. Medicine often tastes bad. Discipline doesn't feel good, but it often results in moral improvement. Ultimately, lies always deceive the liar. There are some people who cannot be trusted to pay their debts and will eventually meet disaster; here are two of them. God can use our moral nature to help us examine ourselves, and we should be seeking God's illumination of our heart and ways.
There are two key qualities which establish someone in a position of authority. If we want to succeed in our goals and survive in our conflicts, we must learn to listen to good advice. The best advice is rarely the easiest to find nor the most obvious to see. It takes effort to get to the heart of wisdom. God hates it when people deceive others about what they are getting for what they are paying. Both vengeance and salvation belong to the Lord. We are much better off doing our work and letting God do His work.
