The Whole Book of Proverbs in Five Sentences

Want a good summary of the Book of Proverbs?  How about in five sentences?

Tim Keller suggests that Proverbs 3:3-12 has “all the themes of the rest of the book, and therefore a kind of mini-guide to faithful living.”

We need to be:

• “rooted in his grace,
• obeying and delighting in his Word,
• humble before other people,
• sacrificially generous toward our neighbor, and
• steadfast in trials”

Keller says this was the life of Jesus, whom the New Testament tells us is the personified ‘divine wisdom’ of the Old Testament (Mt 11:19.):

• “he showed the ultimate trust and faithfulness to God and to us by going to the cross,
• he was saturated with and shaped by Scripture,
• he was meek and lowly in heart (Mt. 11:28-30),
• he, though rich, became poor for us, and
• he bore his suffering, for us, without complaint.

Read the whole thing. It’s brief.