Proverbs (Welwyn)

Heavenly Wisdom

The book of Proverbs is intensely practical.  Here is ‘truth in street clothes’.  It deals with everyday subjects such as laziness, pride, handling money, and telling lies.  Here we meet familiar folk such as the bargain-hunter, the neighbour you see too much of, the practical joker, and the ‘morning person’ who forgets that others take a while to surface.

Gary Brady shows that, above all, Proverbs points us to Christ who is, for believers, their wisdom.  Here is an excellent place to begin to learn about Christ and about wisdom.  It has been said that, as the Psalms give us Christ singing the law, so the Proverbs give us him meditating on it.  Truly to understand him, we must get to grips with Proverbs.  Truly to be wise, we must get to grips with Christ.

Charles Bridges once said that of all Old Testament books it ‘is the one which we may think of as most distinctively educational’.  This is its tone.  A teacher speaks to his student, an old man to a young man and, chiefly, a father to his son.

“Gary Brady comments on the book of Proverbs, showing how chapters 1-9 provide an introduction that instructs one on the proper use of the proverbs found throughout the remainder of the book. He goes beyond making moral and common sense observations on the text, pressing to see how even Proverbs speaks of Christ. This is an engaging, devotional, and practical commentary; Proverbs is simply explained.”  ~  Joel Beeke