Proverbs 21 - take 2
Verse 2 addresses something I've struggled to achieve. It is natural to assume that when someone disagrees with you, that they are doing it to be frustrating and difficult. However, most people most of the time are truly attempting to do what they think is right. (And they might think that I'm being frustrating and difficult.) When I'm successful at taking the point in verse 2 to heart, it can be helpful in coming to successful resolutions to conflict.
[2] Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
More intertextuality. Compare verse 3 with Micah 6:8. (Amazing how verses in Proverbs keep putting me in mind of some of my favorite verses elsewhere in the Bible.)
[2] Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
More intertextuality. Compare verse 3 with Micah 6:8. (Amazing how verses in Proverbs keep putting me in mind of some of my favorite verses elsewhere in the Bible.)
Posted by William T. Bogart on
Wednesday February 21, 2007 at 8:20am