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For Gaining Wisdom and Instruction

Timothy Keller 46

To become wise is to become a disciplined person, given not to impulsiveness but to self-examination, to circumspection, and to clear thinking. It is to become a resilient person who through hard knocks has become poised and resourceful.

Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power.

Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power.




The Proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel: for gaining wisdom and instruction. (1:1–2a)

Surrounding the Hebrew word hokma in these early verses of Proverbs are many near synonyms that shed much light on what wisdom is.

The Hebrew musar (instruction in 1:2–3) means training with strong accountability. It means being drilled under an instructor who often gets up in your face. So wisdom often comes through the pain of personal confrontation by friends (Proverbs 27:5), or from learning from one’s mistakes (Proverbs 26:11), or from the suffering that God judiciously allows into our lives (Proverbs 3:11–12).

Every time your car breaks down and you have to figure out how to fix it, you become “wiser” about cars. So it is with life. Proust wrote that wisdom can be discovered only “after a journey through the wilderness which no one can make for us, which no one can spare us.”


To become wise is to become a disciplined person, given not to impulsiveness but to self-examination, to circumspection, and to clear thinking. It is to become a resilient person who through hard knocks has become poised and resourceful. As an athlete becomes physically competent only after rigorous training, so wisdom is hard won.

Can you see in your own life how God has used difficulty to make you wiser?

Prayer: Father, children need discipline even though they may rebel and resist when they receive it. An undisciplined child, however, will have a miserable life. Forgive me for not recognizing the hard knocks and disappointments of my life as your fatherly discipline. Let me learn wisdom from them all. Amen.


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Timothy Keller

Timothy J. Keller is an American Christian pastor, theologian, and author, born on September 23, 1950, in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a Presbyterian family and attended Bucknell University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1972.

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God's Wisdom for Navigating Life

Timothy Keller
Proverbs is a very different book. It calls us to study, to think, to learn the practical discipline of centering all our thoughts and actions on God. Indeed, one of the main messages of Proverbs is—you’ve never really thought enough about anything.
The conflict is not between science and Scripture, but between the biblicist’s confident faith and the naturalist’s willful skepticism.

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The Truth About Science

John MacArthur
Unlike scientific theory, God’s Word is eternally unchanging. Unlike the opinions of man, its truth is revealed by the Creator Himself! It is not, as many suppose, at odds with science.
“Consérvate como peregrino y extranjero sobre la tierra”.

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To Worship is to Copy

J. Stephen Lang
Thomas had the duty of instructing novices in the spiritual life, and Imitation was probably a collection of books he wrote for that purpose. We know little else about the man. That is as it should be, because the book is more important than the author.
Visions don’t come to life in daydreams but in sweatshops.

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Daydreams and Sweatshops

Steven Furtick
God is the Creator, not because He imagined or envisioned creation, but because He acted and brought it into existence. He expressed intense satisfaction in doing the work and seeing the final product. Why should it be any different for the creatures who were made in His image?
Joseph represents a more mature Christian. He could walk in the dark.

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Triumphs of Faith

D.L. Moody
How are we to get the victory over all our enemies? Joseph represents a more mature Christian. He could walk in the dark. He survived thirteen years of misfortune, in spite of his dreams, and then credited it all to the goodness and providence of God.
Wherever you are right now, look around—everything you see is a gift from God.

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The Source of Everything

David Jeremiah
When David prayed a prayer of thanksgiving for the resources given by all the people, he made it plain that whatever they had given came first from God. It’s so easy for us to forget the origin of everything we own.
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