I still remember my high school teacher defining brutish as “cow-like.”

At least in a verse like this:

“Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish” (Proverbs 12:1).

Am I no better than an animal when it comes to responding to reproof?

No, I don’t like reproof. Yes, I tend to react against reproof.

Frightening.

Then there’s this verse later on in the same chapter:

“The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise” (15).

Am I so proud (and foolish and cow-like) as to think my way is always right and in no need of reproof and contrary counsel?

May God so revive my heart that I learn to value reproof.

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2 thoughts on “Cow-Like”

  1. Amen, I too realize my stubbornness at accepting reproof. I wonder why I/we fight reproof so much; does pride still have that strong of a hold on me/us as Christians? I know that I need to truly be dead to the world, self, and alive in Christ, otherwise, I am lost in my own conceits.

    Thank you for these thoughts; I read them daily as part of my devotions for the day and through them God speaks to me.

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