11 A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,    but a just weight is his delight. God cares a lot about things we think are little: like dishonest scales.When we weigh out or judge our own hearts, we usually get it wrong. We use our own dishonest scales.When we look into God's Word, it tells the truth about us. It helps us weigh our hearts correctly.When we feel the weight of our own sin, the...  Read More

17 Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life,    but he who rejects reproof leads others astray. We learned that wisdom leads us down the path of life.It takes true wisdom to know when we are on the wrong path and to listen to instruction.Red got a merit badge he didn't deserve. When we trust in Jesus, He gives us His merit as well.Jesus' merit is a merit that we don't deserve, but it is gi...  Read More

13 The woman Folly is loud;    she is seductive and knows nothing.14 She sits at the door of her house;    she takes a seat on the highest places of the town,15 calling to those who pass by,    who are going straight on their way,16 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”    And to him who lacks sense she says,17 “Stolen water is sweet,    and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.” Following fooli...  Read More

34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.35 For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord,36 but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.” When we seek wisdom, we seek true life.Our hearts want what they want and seek what they want.The Lord has to give us the spark that lights the flame within our he...  Read More

...keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Our heart wants what it wants so we are to keep truth in front of us at all times.We need the Holy Spirit to write truth on our hearts and help our heart to want to follow that truth. Lord,Write your truth on our heart.Help us to overcome our selfishness t...  Read More

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers. We learned that there are some things that God cannot stand.God can't stand sin and disobedience, but ...  Read More

Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. We learned that whatever we do, we should work hard just as if we were working for Jesus Himself!The ants are God's little reminders that we should look ahead, prepare for what's to come, and work hard.Even when we don't feel like ...  Read More

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.  Read More

My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights. Aat times we don't like it when our parents discipline us, but they do it to correct us and help us.When we have trusted in Jesus, God doesn't punish us, He corrects us with discipline: like letting us get caught so we can be corrected.His disci...  Read More

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.  Read More

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.  Read More

...my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths, for their feet run to evil....  Read More