~Proverbs 4~
"My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them and health to all their body. Guard your heart above all else, for from it flow the wellspring of life."
~Proverbs 4:20-23
The sayings of wisdom must be our principles by which we must govern ourselves, our monitors to warn us of duty and danger; and therefore, (1.) We must receive them readily: "Incline thy ear to them; humbly bow to them; diligently listen to them.’’ The attentive hearing of the word of God is a good sign of a work of grace begun in the heart and a good means of carrying it on. It is to be hoped that those are resolved to do their duty who are inclined to know it. (2.) We must retain them carefully; we must lay them before us as our rule: "Let them not depart from thy eyes; view them, review them, and in every thing aim to conform to them.’’ We must lodge them within us, as a commanding principle, the influences of which are diffused throughout the whole man: "Keep them in the midst of thy heart, as things dear to thee, and which thou art afraid of losing.’’ Let the word of God be written in the heart, and that which is written there will remain.2. The reason why we must thus make much of the words of wisdom is because they will be both food and physic to us, like the tree of life. Those that seek and find them, find and keep them, shall find in them.
~Matthew Henry's Commentary
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