Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, November 7th, 2024
the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Philpot, Joseph Charles. "Commentary on Proverbs 12". Philpot's Commentary on select texts of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/jcp/proverbs-12.html.
Philpot, Joseph Charles. "Commentary on Proverbs 12". Philpot's Commentary on select texts of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/
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Verse 27
Pr 12:27
"The substance of a diligent man is precious." — Pr 12:27
If the Lord has done anything for our souls by his Spirit and grace, and given us anything to taste, handle, realize, and enjoy for ourselves, we know there is a substance and reality in the things that we believe. Religion is our chief employment; our daily meditation or exercise—the main concern of our thoughts and what lies with the greatest weight upon our minds. And justly so; for it is our all. If we have religion, the religion of God’s giving, it will be uppermost in our heart.
It is true we are surrounded with and often hampered by a body of sin and death; we have many worldly cares and anxieties which will intrude upon our minds; and those engaged in business have many things especially to drag them down from heaven to earth. Still, religion will be for the most part uppermost in a man’s soul, where God has begun and is carrying on a gracious work. Not but what he is often very cold and dead, lifeless in his prayers, and unfeeling in his affections; not but what he may be carried away by the things of time and sense and dragged down into darkness, carnality, and lethargy; but with it all, there is something in his bosom that struggles upward—there is that in his heart which goes after the precious things of Christ, and the solemn realities of eternity.