Listen to Me - Proverbs 1

It is really a simple formula, actually. Living a victorious Christian life boils down to Proverbs 1:33, "But he who listens to me shall live securely, and will be at see from the dread of evil." That is the key to life: Just Listen to God. Of course, that is the rub ... listening is so hard to do. We have so many more voices shouting out to us. We tend to "listen" to them more than we want to "listen" to God's voice. This book of Proverbs is about "listening" to voices. In 1:20 we read that wisdom "shouts" out in the streets. This whole book of Proverbs is about Wisdom shouting out and our listening to it. However, it is a book that also warns about how foolishness shouts out and beckons us to respond; to listen to it. In the verse nine chapters in particular we will see the contrast between wisdom's shout out and foolishness shouting out. If we listen to wisdom we have success and are free from the fear of evil. But, if we heed the voice of foolishness we have calamity and disaster. Who will you listen to?