“Listen, my son. Accept my words, and you will live many years. I am teaching you the way of wisdom; I am guiding you on straight paths. When you walk, your steps will not be hindered; when you run, you will not stumble. Hold on to instruction; don’t let go. Guard it, for it is your life. Keep off the path of the wicked; don’t proceed on the way of evil ones. Avoid it; don’t travel on it. Turn away from it, and pass it by. For they can’t sleep unless they have done what is evil; they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble. They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday. But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they don’t know what makes them stumble.” (Proverbs 4:10-19 CSB – Read the chapter)
We like to learn things by experience. This is why, for instance, every chemistry class I took in college had a corresponding lab period. They didn’t just want us to hear about the way various chemicals interacted with each other. They didn’t want us to just hear about what various instruments could do. They wanted us to see and experience it for ourselves. All three of my kids went or are still going to a STEM School. The whole purpose of the curriculum is that they should be doing a whole lot of hands-on learning. This same kind of idea applies to a whole lot of different areas of life. But not all of them. There are some things that are better learned only by report. Let’s talk about one of them today.
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