Wisdom

 Is Such

 To Your Soul

 

 

My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste. Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, you will find a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

 

Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do no violence to the place where the righteous live; for though they fall seven times, they will rise again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

 

Do not rejoice when your enemies fall, and do not let your heart be glad when they stumble, or else the LORD will see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from them.

 

Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not envy the wicked; for the evil have not future; the lamp of the wicked will go out.

 

Proverbs 24:13-20

 

All of us have something in our past that we regret doing. It may have been an honest mistake, a moral failure, or a foolish decision. We wish it had not happened, but it remains in our mind and often drags us down.

 

While the past remains part of our lives, it doesn’t have to determine our future. With God’s wisdom and the forgiveness He offers, we can focus on the future with hope.

 

It’s better to look ahead and prepare

 than to look back and despair.

 

Our Daily BreadMay 24, 2007