Proverbially Speaking

Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin Articles

From the 2009, volume 47, number 2 edition of The Sword and Staff publication, pg. 2, comes the following proverbs of wisdom (appropriate Scriptures and related articles have been added):

Hope is faith made alive (Romans 8:24-25; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Hebrews 11:1).

When we put on Christ, we are thereby clothed in righteousness (Gal. 3:27 NIV; Romans 5:17; Romans 10:4).

Christians should be like a rubber ball; the harder they hit the ground, the higher they bounce (James 4:10; 1 Peter 5:6).

It is good to be set in your ways if they are the ways of God (Proverbs 3:5-6; cf. 1 Chronicles 28:9).

The reality and degree of our hope is seen in the intensity of our commitment to righteousness (1 John 3:3).

To fall asleep in Jesus, you must be a wide-awake Christian (1 Corinthians 15:34; Ephesians 5:11-14).

Opportunity plus ability equals responsibility, and responsibility implies accountability (there is a day of judgment coming – Acts 17:30-31; cf. 2 Corinthians 5:8-10).

Many times, the reason we are not getting anything done, is that we are not doing anything (Matthew 20:6; Matthew 25:24-30).

Truth is unbending (Deuteronomy 30:15-20), but mercy and grace are forgiving (Ephesians 2:1-7; Colossians 2:6-13).

Christ must be everything to us or He is nothing (Gal. 2:20; Matthew 6:24).