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Ep 147: Wisdom - your best life (for) now (Prov 1:20-22).
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- Old things New Podcast
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- Apr 16, 2026
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Summary
Prayer Reading : Prov 1:20-22. Meditation. For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. So spoke Solomon the Preacher in Ecclesiastes 3. In one sense, you could describe our lives as a series of opportunities. When we are young, we have the opportunity to learn. When we have grown we have the opportunity to choose a vocation, a marriage partner perhaps. We have the chance to use the strength and energy of our youth; we have the chance to invest in our children when they are young. We have the chance to take care of our health in our middle years – or to neglect it. This principle also works on a smaller scale. We have the chance to use our time well each day, the chance to exercise and set our priorities. A key thing we need to see, however, is that those opportunities are not permanent. Once they have passed us by, we can’t get them back again. Now the choice before each one of us is simply this: As all these opportunities pass by in life, will we use them well? Or will we waste them? In a sense, this is the real question that’s before us in the final segment of Proverbs 1. It’s a call to listen and to listen carefully. Living wisely, in a sense, is simply the art of choosing carefully and well, to the glory of God and the good of ourselves and others. It is this discernment in choice that the book of Proverbs is designed to give to us. Verses 20-21 are an invitation to get that wisdom. Wisdom is calling, and she is calling us now. “ Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice; at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks. ” In the Book of Hebrews we read that the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two edged sword. As we read God’s word, we are not…