For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website.
Salient points:
- When someone becomes angry with me, I should answer gently, thoughtfully, lovingly.
- Abaddon is rendered "destruction" in v.11.
- Those who get things done clear the way for productive activity (v.19).
- We all need multiple advisers (v.22).
Challenge:
- Keep the highway clear.
- Deal with clutter, overdue tasks, unpaid bills, follow-up, etc.
- "Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways." — Benet (1898-1943)
Version:
- Today I read from the paraphrase The Message.
- (Note: where Peterson has misunderstood Sheol to mean hell, I changed the word to grave, or some other term more in line with the Hebrew and Israelite theology.)
Tomorrow: Proverbs 16
