Good morning on this last Saturday of February. As I have mentioned during the series of sermons from the book of Proverbs, we have a invaluable privilege to receive guidance on many topics from the wisest of men, King Solomon. His wisdom is personal platinum and his advice is both sage and practical. If you follow the guidance he offers throughout his many proverbs, you will be well served in any application. When Barb and I were on vacation in Florida last month, we took our GPS device with us to provide guidance as we traveled the roads of the Sunshine State. As we pulled out of the airport parking lot, we activated the device to take us to our first destination and that's when the problems began. The device utterly failed us by mislabelling streets, taking us in the wrong direction, and providing inaccurate information. In the more than twelve months we have used the device, that has never happened to us before. After rebooting the device and encountering the same problems, we turned it off for the rest of our trip and relied a Filling-Station Map. Clearly our GPS as a source of guidance was unreliable. The lesson is that the value of any guidance received is only as good as its source. That's why you can't go wrong with the guidance from Proverbs; its source is impeccable!
Tomorrow's message from Proverbs is entitled, Effectively Applying Life's Great Source of Improvement."
I hope I'll have the privilege of sharing Solomon's guidance with you then. I can guarantee you, it will not lead you astray.
Mel Brown