{"id":1168,"date":"2009-09-05T09:55:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T15:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2009-09-05T09:55:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T15:55:36","slug":"favor-and-reproof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/favor-and-reproof\/","title":{"rendered":"Favor and Reproof"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"reading\">Reading:<br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">Proverbs 8:33-36<\/font>\n<\/div>\n<p>How may I win God&#8217;s favor? Find wisdom.<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (Proverbs 8:35).<\/p>\n<p>Is there anything that would cause me to turn <i>from<\/i> wisdom&#8217;s reproof?<\/p>\n<p>When I am on the wrong track, wisdom will call after me to turn back toward her. Why would I ever choose not to respond correctly to that?<\/p>\n<p>Stubbornness. Dullness of hearing. Rebellion. Carelessness. Those four are bad enough; there surely are other reasons. Here&#8217;s one more than really pricks my sensibilities: the messenger.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, the messenger. If I don&#8217;t like the one bearing the message of reproof, or if I don&#8217;t like his attitude or his hypocrisy, I too easily reject wisdom&#8217;s message. (But I don&#8217;t think of it that way, of course. Just like the picture below demonstrates!)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/hear_instruction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/hear_instruction.jpg\" alt=\"[The Scriptures say in Proverbs 8:33 -- Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not]\" title=\"God's Word says: Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not (Proverbs 8:33)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>from Proverbs 8:33<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> The above two paragraphs are the closing ones of something a little more extensive I wrote this morning: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/clp\/youth\/1-409.html\" title=\"Are you prone to profit from instruction?\">Profiting from Instruction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading: Proverbs 8:33-36 How may I win God&#8217;s favor? Find wisdom. &#8220;For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD&#8221; (Proverbs 8:35). Is there anything that would cause me to turn from wisdom&#8217;s reproof? When I am on the wrong track, wisdom will call after me to turn back toward her. 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