Second Day of the Rest of Your Year Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Second Day of the Rest of Your Year--------------------------------------- Date: 1/2/2001 Keywords: "despise" "discipline" "second" "wisdom" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Proverbs 1:7-10* 7. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. 8. Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. 9. They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck. 10. My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them. Question In verse 7 above, what makes wisdom and discipline so detestable to fools?   Practical help Another thing a new year occasions — in additions to resolutions — is honesty with oneself. Time to take stock of strengths and weaknesses and, with these in mind, plan how to live the next 12 months. For porn strugglers, there's no better time to answer honestly: Do I hate wisdom and discipline? We may wring our hands all year long over our porn habits, but are we really willing to submit to Biblical counsel? If not, we're fooling ourselves. Is that why Scripture would call us fools? eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2001 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.