Today’s Blog: Working Wisdom
TODAY’S PROVERB: The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases daydreams lacks sense. Proverbs 12:11, TLV
Sometimes a proverb holds practical and symbolic wisdom. This is one of them. The analogy of working the land to provide sustenance and pursuing wisdom to provide us with an abundant life.
If you are new to reading a chapter of Proverbs each day, and are contemplating the commitment of doing it the rest of your life, this verse illustrates how it works. Here are a few tidbits from the illustration:
- Just as a farmer works the land, we read proverbs.
- We prepare our heart to receive the seeds of truth.
- Even though there may be no visible evidence of growth, that seed is working toward the coming harvest. This means, when we don’t understand a proverb, or see its relevance in our life, one day, we will.
- Most farms manage different fields. Our fields of wisdom, discernment, knowledge, and understanding can provide great harvests in our lifetime. They can also feed others around us.
- A harvest is not “eaten” at once, but in manageable portions each day. We need never go hungry.
- Proverbs contains more than we will every need in a lifetime. Trying to consume — much less digest — it in a few hours, or days, or years would be impossible. And a bit discouraging.
Our life will have seasons of great harvest and seasons of drought. We will have challenges that deplete and breakthroughs that restore. With our Father’s wisdom, grace, and love, we can weather through.
May we work our land, my friends.
Proverbs 12:11 Tree of Life Version – TLV, #tlvbible, #tlvproverbs
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