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Welcome to Day 2046 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
The Book of Proverbs \u2013 Chapter 6 \u2013 Daily Wisdom
Wisdom-Trek Podcast Script - Day 2046

Welcome to Wisdom-Trek with Gramps! I am Guthrie Chamberlain, and we are on Day 2046 of our Trek. Establishing good habits is imperative for living a Godly life and one habit I have practiced nearly every day for the past 45+ years of my adult life is to read the chapter in the book of Proverbs that corresponds to the day of the month. This single habit has been the catalyst for gaining wisdom and creating a living legacy. Adopting this habit can do the same for your life. The realization that God\u2019s Wisdom is the only true wisdom drives me to seek God\u2019s wisdom each day, and there is no better way to do this than to meditate on God\u2019s book of Wisdom. Wisdom is the final frontier in gaining true knowledge. So we are on a daily trek to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, and to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Today I will read Proverbs 6.


The Book of Proverbs - Chapter 6

Lessons for Daily Life



6 My child,[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%206andversion=NLT#fen-NLT-16518a (a)] if you have put up security for a friend\u2019s debt
or agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger\u2014
2 if you have trapped yourself by your agreement
and are caught by what you said\u2014
3 follow my advice and save yourself,
for you have placed yourself at your friend\u2019s mercy.
Now swallow your pride;
go and beg to have your name erased.
4 Don\u2019t put it off; do it now!
Don\u2019t rest until you do.
5 Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter,
like a bird fleeing from a net.

6 Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones.
Learn from their ways and become wise!
7 Though they have no prince
or governor or ruler to make them work,
8 they labor hard all summer,
gathering food for the winter.
9 But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep?
When will you wake up?
10 A little extra sleep, a little more slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest\u2014
11 then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit;
scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.

12 What are worthless and wicked people like?
They are constant liars,
13 signaling their deceit with a wink of the eye,
a nudge of the foot, or the wiggle of fingers.
14 Their perverted hearts plot evil,
and they constantly stir up trouble.
15 But they will be destroyed suddenly,
broken in an instant beyond all hope of healing.

16 There are six things the Lord hates\u2014
no, seven things he detests:
17 haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that kill the innocent,
18 a heart that plots evil,
feet that race to do wrong,
19 a false witness who pours out lies,
a person who sows discord in a family.

20 My son, obey your father\u2019s commands,
and don\u2019t neglect your mother\u2019s instruction.
21 Keep their words always in your heart.
Tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk, their counsel will lead you.
When you sleep, they will protect you.
When you wake up, they will advise you.
23 For their command is a lamp
and their instruction a light;
their corrective discipline
is the way to life.
24 It will keep you from the immoral woman,
from the smooth tongue of a promiscuous woman.
25 Don\u2019t lust for her beauty.
Don\u2019t let her coy glances seduce you.
26 For a prostitute will bring you to poverty,[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%206andversion=NLT#fen-NLT-16543b (b)]
but sleeping with another man\u2019s wife will cost you your life.
27 Can a man scoop a flame into his lap
and not have his clothes catch on fire?
28 Can he walk on hot coals
and not blister his feet?
29 So it is with the man who sleeps with another man\u2019s wife.
He who embraces her will not go unpunished.

30 Excuses might be found for a thief
who steals because he is starving.
31 But if he is caught, he...