Proverbs

For the last year we have been reading through the Book of Proverbs in our Sunday morning worship service. At times, it feels as if we are drinking from a fire hydrant: one grand adage after another. Has this worship exercise really been worth it? I would answer with a resounding yes! Matthew Henry gets at the heart of the issue when he says: "What good use may be made of Proverbs? Those who are young and simple may by them be made wise, and are not excluded from Solomon's school, as they were from Plato's. But is it only for such? No; here is not only milk for babes, but strong meat for strong men. This book will not only make the foolish and bad wise and good, but the wise and good wiser and better."