Thought for April 3rd 'Whoever despises the word ' Proverbs 13 13

The proverbs of Solomon make many points for us to meditate upon – vital principles for daily living.  It is good to take them individually and reflect carefully on how many of them apply to daily living in the circumstances in which we find ourselves.  Chapter 13 today at v.13 says, “Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded.”   How true that is – but in an increasing number of ways and places today the word of God is ignored as being of no account.  In others the ‘knowing’ of God’s word is left to a select few – ‘elders’ they might be called – and the danger is that they selectively apply them according to their own interpretation; evidence of this is seen in those who opposed our Lord.        There is danger when believers become followers of individuals instead of adequately reverencing God’s word and making that word part of their thinking. Paul lamented to the Corinthians, “each one of you says, ‘I follow Paul’ or ‘I follow Cephas,’ or ‘I follow Apollos, …  Is Christ divided?” [1 Cor. 1 v.12] Solomon writes, “In everything the prudent act with knowledge” [v.16] and God’s word is the source of that knowledge.  “Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.”[v.20] A @Christadelphians Video: ************ This video was produced by the ChristadelphianVideo.org project, arranged and supported by Christadelphians worldwide. ** ChristadelphianVideo.org ** Main site: https://cdvideo.org/ NEW ON CHRISTADELPHIANVIDEO.ORG! You can follow us online at some of our other services.. #1 Our Main site... https://cdvideo.org #2 Our podcast on Podbean... https://cdvideo.org/spotify #3 Our podcast on Apple...https://cdvideo.org/podcast-apple #4 Our podcast on Anchor...https://cdvideo.org/truth-talk #5 Our facebook...https://facebook.com/OpenBibles #6 Our Whats App... https://cdvideo.org/WhatsApp #7 Our Instagram... https://cdvideo.org/Instagram #8 Our X... https://cdvideo.org/x #9 Our YouTube Channel... https://cdvideo.org/@christadelphians #10 Our Audio site Scripturescribe.com... https://cdvideo.org/mp3 #11 https://youtube.com/@Christadelphians?sub_confirmation=1 #12 Our Substack https://thebiblestandard.substack.com/ ** Podcasts: Podcast on Podbean...https://cdvideo.org/podbean Podcast on Apple........https://cdvideo.org/podcast-apple Podcast on Spotify......https://cdvideo.org/spotify ** Social Media: Facebook/openbibles Whats App... https://cdvideo.org/WhatsApp Free group...Shared links and comments on the daily reading, ( also links to advance viewing on many videos before public release) Instagram... https://cdvideo.org/Instagram X... https://cdvideo.org/x YouTube Channel... https://cdvideo.org/@christadelphians Our Substack - https://thebiblestandard.substack.com/ ** Other resources: https://cdvideo.org/www (A hour hour presentation about ChristadelphianVideo.org) https://cdvideo.org/exhorts (Over 1000 video exhortations many including the emblems (Full service)) https://cdvideo.org/compare-expound (A free quarterly digital magazine published for the discerning and inquiring mind.) https://cdvideo.org/wss (What saith Scripture resource centre, verse trails, videos, on 1st principle subjects.) Where possible, each section includes our suggested video presentations as well as articles and links on the various topics. linktr.ee/cdvideo A page with all our links. ** Watch / read / Listen to other thoughts for the day on our site here https://christadelphianvideo.org/tftd/ #Christadelphianvideo #thebiblechannel #christadelphianstalk #Christadelphians #bible #openbible #Gospeltruth #gospel #Christadelphian #truth #podcast #discoverthebible #cdvideo