by Pastor Ray Viola | May 5, 2025 | Selah
Today’s passage cautions us not to be wise in our own eyes. Conceit, which is pride, elevates our own ideas above God’s way. Whereas God’s way leads to health and peaceful contentment, man’s way results in fear, guilt, hatred, sickness, and sorrow. Please open your...
by Pastor Ray Viola | May 2, 2025 | Selah
Wisdom, like a godly parent, wants the best for her children. One can only live one’s best life, which benefits from divine favor, by obeying principles set forth in God’s word. Therefore, in today’s passage, Wisdom pleads with her child to remember God’s precepts...
by Pastor Ray Viola | May 1, 2025 | Selah
Life is full of traps. Godly discretion helps us to avoid them. Christians enjoy well-guarded lives, because God’s word equips us to avoid Satan’s snares that he baits with things that appeal to our pride or that tempt us with lustful pleasure. Hunger and thirst after...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Apr 30, 2025 | Selah
Today’s passage contains a father’s speech to his son, describing how to acquire wisdom, the benefits one can expect from such a pursuit, and how wisdom protects a person from the temptations of wicked men and forbidden women. These ancient words of wisdom were...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Apr 29, 2025 | Selah
Satan is our enemy, and he has many cunning traps that he uses to entice or pressure people to become ensnared in them. Fortunately, God’s word exposes the many traps he has set for us, and He offers us the wisdom to avoid them. Unfortunately, we are sometimes drawn...
by Pastor Ray Viola | Apr 28, 2025 | Selah
If a person wants to be wise, then it makes logical sense for that person to trust their Creator and to follow His instructions. On the other hand, only a fool would reject God’s word and live by his own wits. The wisest thing that you can do is to repent of your...