Proverbs 15
How practical, how suited to everyday and to the particular circumstances which may engage us at any time, are the Proverbs!
Verses 1, 2, and 4 give the light of God’s Word on the use of the tongue, so often in trouble. (See also James 3:13-18).
Verse 3 is one of a number of passages about the eyes of the Lord. They are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Sobering thought! No voice is heard, but the eyes of Him with whom we have to do, see everything. They looked upon the world of Noah’s time, before the flood (Genesis 6:8); they rested upon the land He had chosen for Israel’s possession (Deuteronomy 11:12), and upon that nation early and late in its Old Testament history (Exodus 3:7, 9; Jeremiah 52:2); they searched the whole earth when Israel had been carried away to Assyria and Babylon (Zechariah 4: 10), as not long before the captivity of the two tribes when their king Asa heard from the lips of Hanani the seer,
“The eyes of the Lord run to and from throughout the whole earth, to show Him self strong- in the behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward Him” (2 Chronicles 16:9. See also Job 34:21; Psalm 34:15; 1 Peter 3:12).
Verse 8. The sacrifice of the wicked is conscienceless, or in hypocrisy or deceit (See chapter 21, verse 27, and Psalm 51:17). But the prayer of the upright is God's delight,—how cheering to the troubled saint! Happiness and wealth are not necessarily companions (verses 16, 17), but godliness with contentment is great gain (1 Timothy 6:6).
Verse 20: A godly son honors his parents, but the wicked, without natural affection often despise their mothers (2 Timothy 3:2, 3).
Verse 11 is solemnizing, though the words are ,few. Eternity,_ the dead and the living, and God's all seeing eyes—and a day of final judgment is to come!
Messages of God’s Love 7/3/1932