Proverbially Speaking

Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin Articles

In the 2011, volume 49, number 3 edition of The Sword and Staff publication, pg. 2, comes the following proverbs of wisdom (appropriate Scriptures and related articles have been added):

Good advice: Know thyself; be thyself; give thyself.

Christianity fills life with meaning, and as Christians we live accordingly and mean much to one another (Romans 12:10; Hebrews 13:1).

If we walk close to God, the devil can’t come between us (Proverbs 3:5-6; Romans 8:28-39).

Frequenting the throne of grace will keep you from falling from grace as you grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord (Hebrews 4:14-16; 1 John 1:6-10; 2 Peter 1:3-11).

It is good not to see people as they are, but to see them through the eyes of what they can become (1 Samuel 24).

Paradoxically speaking, we are to “fight the good fight of faith” (1 Timothy 6:12) while our feet are “shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace” (Ephesians 6:15).

We live the good life by being “good” and going about doing “good” (Acts 10:38; cf. Gal. 6:9-10).

The darker the shadow the more brilliant is the light that makes the shadow; so look up! (James 1:17).

People respond better to warm truths than they do to cold facts (Acts 17:16-32).

If your convictions change with the weather, you will probably have a storm-filled life (James 1:5-8).