The reminder to the reader is persistent throughout Proverbs. Watch this as your read and listen to this instruction. It is right to think that this father has told these things to his son often by this kind of language.
Doing this in Christ will heal and strengthen your whole being:
- Trust in the Lord.
- Do not rely on your understanding.
- Think about the Lord.
- Don't consider yourself independently wise (apart from God.)
- Honor the Lord with your possessions
- Do not despise the Lord's instruction
- Do not loath his discipline.
Treat everyone fairly:
- When you have the ability to help others don't withhold the help.
- Don't plan harm for others.
- Don't accuse others of things on hear-say.
- Don't long for the wealth and ease of life of evil people.
- the devious are detestable to the Lord, the very one you are pursuing as a treasure.
Pray for a breaking of your outer man. Pray that you will yield to the Spirit and live with joy in his instructions.
