A Daily Devotional – Meditation and Contemplation (3)

A Daily Devotional – Meditation and Contemplation (3)

Comment: Proverbs 30 – Reading from Dr. Constable’s notes on this chapter is interesting so I thought it worthy to share this, this morning. [Scripture does not refer to either "Agur" ("The Gatherer," "Collector," or "Industrious in Collecting") or his father (or ancestor) "Jakeh" ("The Obedient" or "Pious") elsewhere. At least one writer felt he may have been a contemporary of Solomon. Delitzsch believed that both Agur and Lemuel were Ishmaelites. An "oracle" is a weighty message from God (cf. Zech. 9:1), and the Hebrew word, Massa, may refer to "a place" or "a tribe." "Ithiel" ("God is with Me") and "Ucal" ("Able") may have been Agur's sons, disciples, or contemporaries]

Devotional: I went searching this morning for a word or two about para-church and para-legal organizations. My thought was to place these entities on par with the ‘horseleech (KJV)’. Dr. Constable explains that the leech used by the author, ‘Agur’ a collector of witty sayings is saying "The leech has two suckers at each end of its body with which it draws blood until bloated. These are the 'daughters,' "

 

So I believe that Agur and his witty sayings covers the subject on my mind very well. The whole thirtieth chapter of Proverbs appeals to the reader to learn wisdom, not the wisdom of the world since we are full of this wisdom as we seek to understand the heavens, the winds, the waters and the establishment of the earth. Yet we do this apart from KNOWING the creator or his SON. (Proverbs 30:2-4).

Agur points out that every Word of God is pure (tested and ALWAYS found pure) therefore everyone who put their TRUST (faith) in Him will be shielded from the ‘greed’ of the ‘liars’, who promise prosperity or safety, knowing full well that it God alone whose plans for man are pure and trustworthy. Here is the bottom line; Our time and resources ought to be used in the STUDY and MEDITATION of GOD and HIS SON.

We are foolish to exalt ourselves, to devise evil by extortion and call it good, we are simply forcing wrath, producing strife in the lives of people who do not know what they are doing. Instead of seeking to solve all of mankind’s problems with the extorted dollar, we ought to return to the words of Jesus in Matthew 28:18-20.