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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Nightly Scripture, a calming,

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Speaker 2: scripture centered devotional podcast designed to help you end each

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Speaker 2: day with God's word in your mind and on your heart.

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Speaker 2: Right after the short worth more sponsors, we will reflect

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Speaker 2: on tonight's scripture Proverbs chapter thirty. Tonight's reflection as written

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Speaker 2: by Amber Ginter and read by Kyle Morman. Proverbs chapter thirty,

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Speaker 2: the sayings of Agur, son of Jaka, and inspired utterance

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Speaker 2: this man's utterance to Ethel. I am weary God, but

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Speaker 2: I can prevail. Surely I am only a brute, not

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Speaker 2: a man. I do not have human understanding. I have

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Speaker 2: not learned wisdom, nor have I attained to the knowledge

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Speaker 2: of the Holy One, who has gone up to heaven

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Speaker 2: and didn't come down, whose hands have gathered up the wind,

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Speaker 2: who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak, who

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Speaker 2: has established all the ends of the earth. What is

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Speaker 2: his name, and what is the name of his son?

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Speaker 2: Surely you know every word of God is flawless. He

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Speaker 2: is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

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Speaker 2: Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke

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Speaker 2: you and prove you a liar. Two things I ask

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Speaker 2: of you, Lord, do not refuse me before I die.

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Speaker 2: Keep falsehoods and lies far from me. Give me neither

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Speaker 2: poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.

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Speaker 2: Otherwise I may have too much and disown you and

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Speaker 2: say who is the Lord? Or I may become poor

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Speaker 2: and steel and so dishonor the name of my God.

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Speaker 2: Do not slander a servant to their master, or they

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Speaker 2: will curse you, and you will pay for it. There

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Speaker 2: are those who curse their fathers and do not bless

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Speaker 2: their mothers. Those who are pure in their own eyes,

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Speaker 2: and they are not cleaned from their filth. Those whose

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Speaker 2: eyes are ever so haughty, whose glances are so disdainful,

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Speaker 2: those whose teeth are swords, and his jaws are set

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Speaker 2: with knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and

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Speaker 2: the needing from all mankind. The leech has two daughters,

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Speaker 2: give give they cry. There are three things that are

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Speaker 2: never satisfied, four that never say enough. The grave and

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Speaker 2: womb land, which is never satisfied. With water and fire,

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Speaker 2: which never says enough. The eye that mocks a father,

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Speaker 2: that scorns an aged mother will be pecked out by

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Speaker 2: the ravens of the valley. It will be eaten by

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Speaker 2: the vultures. There are three things that are too amazing

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Speaker 2: for me, for that I do not understand. The way

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Speaker 2: of an eagle in the sky, the way of a

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Speaker 2: snake on a rock, the way of a ship on

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Speaker 2: the high seas. And the way of a man with

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Speaker 2: a young woman. This is the way of an adulterous woman.

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Speaker 2: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, I've done

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Speaker 2: nothing wrong. Under three things, the earth trembles. Under four.

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Speaker 2: It cannot bear up a servant who becomes king, a

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Speaker 2: godless fool who gets plenty to eat, a contemptible woman

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Speaker 2: who get it's married, and a servant who displaces her mistress.

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Speaker 2: Four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise.

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Speaker 2: Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up

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Speaker 2: their food in the summer. High Raxes are creatures of

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Speaker 2: little power, yet they make their homes in the crags.

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Speaker 2: Locusts have no king, yet they advance together in ranks.

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Speaker 2: A lizard can be caught in the hand, yet it

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Speaker 2: is found in king's palaces. There are three things that

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Speaker 2: are steady in their strides, four that move with a

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Speaker 2: stately bearing. A lion mighty among beasts who retreats before nothing,

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Speaker 2: a strutting rooster, a he goat, and a king secure

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Speaker 2: against revolt if you pay the fool and exalt yourself,

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Speaker 2: or if you plan evil, clap your hand over your mouth.

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Speaker 2: For as churning cream produces butter, and as twisting the

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Speaker 2: nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife. What

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Speaker 2: do you do when you don't know the answer to

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Speaker 2: a question? Do you lie, stumble over your words, or

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Speaker 2: admit that you aren't quite sure and we'll get back

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Speaker 2: to them. We live in a world that loves confidence,

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Speaker 2: opinions and having all the right answers. But spiritually, wisdom

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Speaker 2: comes from humility, not being a no at all, because

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Speaker 2: those who are willing to become wise are the ones

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Speaker 2: willing to say, I'm not sure, but God grant me

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Speaker 2: the knowledge to learn. And that's where tonight's verse comes.

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Speaker 2: In Proverbs thirty verses two and three, he says, surely,

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Speaker 2: I'm only a brute, not a man. I do not

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Speaker 2: have human understanding. I've not learned wisdom, nor have I

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Speaker 2: attained to the knowledge of the Holy One. Proverbs three

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Speaker 2: thirty verse five says it this way, every word of

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Speaker 2: God is flawless. He's a shield to those who take

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Speaker 2: refuge in him. What we notice in these verses is

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Speaker 2: that our author doesn't start by bragging about his knowledge,

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Speaker 2: but rather admitting his limitations. Humility isn't hating yourself or

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Speaker 2: pretending to be stupid. It's recognizing that God is God

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Speaker 2: and you are not. It's acknowledging that as smart or

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Speaker 2: as wise as we might be, we all still need

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Speaker 2: God's discipline, knowledge, truth, and guidance. Pride can easily sneak

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Speaker 2: into our lives. It sounds like I already know this,

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Speaker 2: or I'm fine on my own. But wisdom, says Lord,

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Speaker 2: teach me. Wisdom says I need you. And even Solomon,

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Speaker 2: one of the wisest men in Scripture, knew this because

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Speaker 2: a teachable spirit always matters more than appearing intelligent. It's

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Speaker 2: the humble who draw near to God and grow. It's

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Speaker 2: the prideful who close their ears and grow stand offish

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Speaker 2: and you humble to the Lord's correction? Or have you

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Speaker 2: become resistant to growth? Are you more concerned with looking

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Speaker 2: wise or becoming wise? When was the last time you

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Speaker 2: asked God to teach you? Reflect openly and honestly on

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Speaker 2: these questions with him. Now, Dear God, your word reminds

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Speaker 2: me that I don't need to know everything to grow

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Speaker 2: in wisdom. Today my heart cries out for you. Teach

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Speaker 2: me to receive wisdom with humility and to lay down pride, defensiveness,

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Speaker 2: or the need to have it all together. Give me

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Speaker 2: a teachable spirit that listens to your instruction, and trust

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Speaker 2: your word over my own. Help me walk in your ways.

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