Building Your House On Wisdom | A SOAP Devotional, By Pastor Jamie
Read Proverbs 24 Proverbs 24 NLT - Don’t envy evil people or desire - Bible Gateway Proverbs 24:3-4- A house is built by wisdom and becomes strong through good sense. Through knowledge its rooms are filled with all sorts of precious riches and valuables. The writer of this proverb was pointing out to his listeners that there was more to building a house than the actual construction materials and skill. A person could pour lots of time and money into physically building an incredible structure to live in without it being a place of wisdom, good sense, and growing knowledge. Solomon spent 13 years, for instance, building his own personal house (only 7 years on the Temple). He forgot more wisdom than most folks will ever know, but he definitely made some serious mistakes as he grew older. He failed to take seriously his own good advice- he "swelled" into himself, rather than growing in God's grace and love. Power and riches can, with God's he...