Natural relationships form beautiful pictures of the wisdom of the ways of God. The parent has authority given of God (Eph. 6:11Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. (Ephesians 6:1)), but it is authority to be used in loving wisdom to do the child good all the days of his life. Love is here the motive spring of authority rightly used. Now it is the love of God that moved His heart to give us this wisdom from Himself to guide our feet through a world filled with evil and with the subtlety of an enemy who would use the fallen nature within us to lead in the paths of sin and folly.
The child of God does not need to know the subtle evil of the world to avoid it. He needs “a plain path” (Ps. 27:11). This the book of Proverbs supplies, by giving us the wisdom of God for our walk. He who knows all and has understanding of all has given us in this book the way of wisdom in all the various relationships of life, the temptations, and the vexations that are met along the pathway of life. How precious to have the wisdom of God to direct us!
Let those who attend school and college always remember that the things that belong to revelation are beyond reason. A man must be master of a subject to know it rightly, and he cannot be this of God. God and His wisdom are utterly beyond man.
H. E. Hayhoe