Proverbs 17 - Check Your Attitude

 

Proverbs 17 – Check Your Attitude

 

The poor and the needy are easy targets because they are powerless. But all people are made in God’s image (Gen. 1:27). To make fun of the poor is to make fun of God. To be glad over someone’s misfortune makes one at fault before God.

 

Starting an argument may seem harmless, but it can release a flood of damage like a small crack in a dam. The answer is to stop contention before it begins. (I Thess. 4:11).

 

Relationships built on love and fidelity are a rare treasure. True friends are faithful in times of adversity as well as prosperity.

 

Some people seem to thrive when they are offending others – in their love of fighting, they have a way of pushing those around them to the breaking point. In similar fashion the one who builds a doorway too high will most assuredly see the doorway collapse.

 

Like the student who hears nothing of what the teacher says because his attention is focused elsewhere in the classroom, the fool who is inattentive to the instruction of wisdom is said to have his eyes on the ends of the earth.

 

Here is your litmus test:

 

What do you listen to?

What do you rejoice in?

What do you talk about?

What do you get angry at?

What do you give in to?

 

 

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