Folly or Wisdom?

Proverbs 7-9; Romans 9 

“I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence; I possess knowledge and discretion. To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech…Wisdom has built her house…The woman Folly is loud; she is undisciplined and without knowledge. She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city.”

Proverbs 8:12, 13; 9:1, 13, 14

If wisdom is a house, then humility is the front door and the fear of the Lord is the key which opens it. If folly is another house, then pride is its front door. God hates pride and arrogance!

Which house will we visit and which will we choose to live in?

The messages we receive from popular culture are inviting us to folly. Pride blinds us and makes us vulnerable to folly. Religious pride is one of the largest doors to the house of folly. We cannot grow in wisdom while we walk in pride. The house of wisdom into which God invites us, through humility and the fear of the Lord, requires us to grow in prudence, knowledge, and discretion. Each day we choose in which house we will live; the accumulation of these choices shapes our character.

“Lord Jesus, you are Wisdom. I choose again this day to live with you and learn your ways, for your glory.”