It's in Your
Interest to be Wise!
"If you become wise, you will be the one to benefit.
If you scorn wisdom, you will be the one to suffer." Prov. 9:12
- Parents and parents to-be, give birth to the only the number of children you can cater for.Parents, send your children to school; children ensure you work hard at your studies and come out of school in flying colours
- All, don't be lazy; choose a career and study and practise it to earn you good income.
- Singles: Don't marry too early or too late; involve God and your parents in your marriage. More importantly choose a compatible partner!
- Every money you earn IS A SEED; don't waste on luxuries (alcohol, cigarettes, immoraility) or wasteful assets e.g. latest cars, TV's, Handsets, etc!
- Save for your retirement!
- Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal Saviour so as to guarantee your heavenly place after leaving this world!
- Children, obey your parents and bless them so that ....
- .... Parents, don't provoke your children!
- Wives, submit to your husbands IN ALL THINGS!
- Husbands, love your wives such that you can sacrifice your own life for them!
- Serve no other gods other than the only true God, and so on.
- Above all, obey the 10 commandments!
Acting in wisdom is one good thing that can ever happen to a man or woman. Many of the things we do rightly are in our own interest. If we do them otherwise, there's repercussion attached. The above 12 listed examples are not exhaustive of the various do's and don'ts in the Bible but the truth is that whether we obey them or not, we face the consequences in our family, career, ministry, parenting, educational and other aspects of life.
The rich people being envied today are the products of their wise parents who, in those days, heeded the golden advice to educate their children. Such children who excelled occupied strategic positions in our society today. They not only become wealthy, but they elevate the names of their families beyond the ordinary names e.g. who does not know: the Nobel Laurette, Prof. Wole Soyinka? Can the name of Prof. Chinua Achebe be hidden? Can Obasanjo's family's name be difficult to identify? Yet many of their parents' contemporaries who did nothing about the future of their children remain are unheard of today.
It is disheartening today to see many parents still producing children indiscriminately instead of producing few that they can cater for, moreso when there is family planning! These foolish families are destined to be perpetually ruled rather than rule. They will produce visionless children that will be used by the politicians (the children of the wise parents) as touts to achieve their aims. They will be the ones to produce children that will serve as househelps to the families of the wise and the rich. They will be the ones to produce children who are given the legacy of greed from the womb, because they have to struggle for the little available food in the family so as to survive. They are families that will enjoy 'pains' and may never taste pleasure. They will for ever depend upon their expectation of reliance upon Government, relatives, etc even to feed!
Let's reflect upon this very important matter: the need to be wise. And act out her script as described in Prov. 9 which has this to say:
Wisdom has built her house;
she has carved its seven columns.
2 She has prepared a great banquet,
mixed the wines, and set the table.
3 She has sent her servants to invite everyone to come.
She calls out from the heights overlooking the city.
4 “Come in with me,” she urges the simple.
To those who lack good judgment, she says,
5 “Come, eat my food,
and drink the wine I have mixed.
6 Leave your simple ways behind, and begin to live;
learn to use good judgment.”
7 Anyone who rebukes a mocker will get an insult in return.
Anyone who corrects the wicked will get hurt.
8 So don’t bother correcting mockers;
they will only hate you.
But correct the wise,
and they will love you.
9 Instruct the wise,
and they will be even wiser.
Teach the righteous,
and they will learn even more.
10 Fear of the Lord is the foundation of wisdom.
Knowledge of the Holy One results in good judgment.
11 Wisdom will multiply your days
and add years to your life.
12 If you become wise, you will be the one to benefit.
If you scorn wisdom, you will be the one to suffer.
Folly Calls for a Hearing
13 The woman named Folly is brash.
She is ignorant and doesn’t know it.
14 She sits in her doorway
on the heights overlooking the city.
15 She calls out to men going by
who are minding their own business.
16 “Come in with me,” she urges the simple.
To those who lack good judgment, she says,
17 “Stolen water is refreshing;
food eaten in secret tastes the best!”
18 But little do they know that the dead are there.
Her guests are in the depths of the grave.*
Good morning.
