Tag: discipline
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How a Cheesecake Taught Me Discipline
5O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.–Proverbs 8 Four categories here. 1. The word simple is othertimes translated naive. 2. Prudence means using the mind to discipline life. 3. The word fool is othertimes translated stupid. 4. Sense is literally the Hebrew ‘understanding of heart.’ So the ones who are living the undisciplined…
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Self-Absorbed Samson
14When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands. 15And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and…
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Simple Perspective
5O simple ones, learn prudence;O fools, learn sense.–Proverbs 8 My thoughts: Four categories here. So the ones who are living the undisciplined life need to live the disciplined life. To do otherwise is to be naive. I am glad in this current season to not be a hypocrite of this. Areas of my life have…
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Discipline Is For Everyone
15Drink water from your own cistern,flowing water from your own well.–Proverbs 5 My thoughts: Yes, yes, so the context in this chapter is clearly sexual sin. The married man enticed to commit adultery and have sex with a woman not his wife. Now some reading this chapter (especially women) might be tempted to check out…
Joel M Bradshaw 