WISDOM - Proverbs 7

“My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you. 

Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye. 

Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.”
Proverbs 7:1-3

In Proverbs 7, Solomon warns to keep God’s commands and not be enticed by sin. 

It is a general exhortation to get our minds set on and governed by God and to hold

onto the doctrines and precepts of wisdom in order to avoid the lure of our sinful

nature and is specifically to warn young men against the lusts of the flesh.  It

concludes with a last plea to pay attention and listen to the words of wisdom.

Proverbs 7:1-3 contains three ways believers need to follow God’s commands to

live comfortably, peaceably, pleasantly, and honorably.  We are to keep His

words within, so we remember them, experience them and delight in them. We

are to keep His commands, apply them to our lives - put them into practice - so

that we cannot live without them.  We are to guard His wisdom as a treasure like

the apple of our eye, preserved as light to the eye of our soul. Our fingers are

instruments of action, so when we bind wisdom on our fingers, it is always in view

and when we write in our hearts, it dwells within us and becomes a part of who

we are.

                                                            Joyce