Today’s message brings us almost to the end of Proverbs -can you see me smiling? Just kidding, but wow! It’s been a long, long book!

What Agur is expressing in chapter 30 is how to be humble and what humility looks like and what it’s not.

To lead into the message, Pator John quoted from a popular song back in the 60’s by Mac Davis…Oh Lord, It’s Hard to Be Humble (When Youre Perfect in Every Way)

Sure, it sounds funny, but some Christians walk around like they are perfect just because they are doing outside things that look like they are walking the walk. Going to church on Sundays, reading the Bible, but in reality, they are hypocrites because they are still living a worldly life.

Proverbs 10 says: Do not slander a servant to their master or they will curse you and you will pay for it.

2 Timothy 1-4

Basically this says exactly what we are seeing right now, people disrespectful of the law, their parents, and slanderous, ungrateful, unholy. Surely we are in the last days of the end times.

Dont be foolish and prideful without having a close relationship between yourselves and God. Have humility and a healthy respect (fear) of God.

Proverbs 17 says: The eye that mocks the father or scorns an aging mother will be pecked out by ravens to be eaten by vultures. Respect and love your parents!

These are the negative aspects of not having enough humility.

1.) We Must Restrain Ourselves From Hypocrisy and Excessive Consumption. (10-17)

Now for the positive. Starting with verse 18, we hear about the amazing things in nature that are made perfect by God and we should awe. Eagles and how they fly using drafts and snakes on rocks using camouflage. Ships and how they float on water and men just starting to date. They all require humility to grow and learn.

Tiny, vulnerable beings like ants, hydraxes, lizards, and locusts are smart and skillful natural beings. Ants find strength in numbers and store their food in summer. Hydraxes are not powerful yet adaptive by hiding in the crags. Locusts have no king but move in ranks. And lizards are easy to catch yet will be found even in a king’s palace.

The stately, confident beings; the lion who retreats from nothing, the strutting rooster, and the king secure against revolt. Mighty, self assured, yet humble.

2.) We Muat Have Wonder Over the detailed design of the Natural World and Human Relationships.

Humility👉Reverent Respect👉Wisdom

Thank you all for visiting and to those who love the Proverbs, take no offense at my desire to be done. Everything in the Bible teaches us lessons we need, but this chapter beats them into us repeatedly. 😉

I believe there is one more week and then we move into the shortest book of the Bible! (Obadiah)