Advice Study - Edition #2: Folly Ball (It's a New Sport!)

May 29th, 2006

Happy Memorial Day!
Advice Study – Edition #2: Folly Ball (It’s a New Sport!)

Proverbs 15:21-23
Folly delights a man who lacks judgment, but a man of understanding keeps a straight course. Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. A man finds joy in giving an apt reply - and how good is a timely word!

Apt (adj.):

• Exactly suitable; appropriate.


• Having a natural tendency; inclined.


• Quick to learn or understand.

Proverbs 15:23 reply:
ma‛ăneh
mah-an-eh'
A reply (favorable or contradictory): - answer, X himself.

Proverbs 15:22 counsel:
sôd
sode
A session, that is, company of persons (in close deliberation); by implication intimacy, consultation, a secret: - assembly, counsel, inward, secret (counsel).

Proverbs 15:22 advisers:
yâ‛ats
yaw-ats'
A primitive root; to advise; reflexively to deliberate or resolve: - advertise, take advice, advise (well), consult, (give take) counsel (-lor), determine, devise, guide, purpose.

Proverbs 15:21 folly:
'ivveleth
iv-veh'-leth
Silliness: - folly, foolishly (-ness).

Proverbs 15:21 delights:
śimchâh
sim-khaw'
Blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival): - X exceeding (-ly), gladness, joy (-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice (-ing).

Proverbs 15:21 lacks:
châsêr
khaw-sare'
Lacking; hence without: - destitute, fail, lack, have need, void, want.

Proverbs 15:21 judgment:
lêb
labe
The heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything: - + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag [-eous], friend [-ly], ([broken-], [hard-], [merry-], [stiff-], [stout-], double) heart ([-ed]), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind (-ed), X regard ([-ed)], X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.

Now, I guess I could call these like “Cliff Notes” but really, I did this all while sitting down… do no-where near a cliff. Today, I will go ahead and resume sending out my Quiet Times or daily devotionals; however you want to call them. Should you wish, you can always check out the previous editions… always available.

2nd Timothy 3:1-9
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God - having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth - men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.

Folly (noun):

• A lack of good sense, understanding, or foresight.

Advice (noun):

• Opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem; counsel.


• Recommendation regarding a decision or course of conduct.

Getting advice is good sense. The bible says that it is a good thing to do. It says that it assures success. It doesn’t say that I have to listen to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that crosses my path that I should ask, and place every word they say into practice… the definition above says that advice is “an opinion” and should simply be left at that. But if that opinion is then opened and the bible speaks… that is a different matter… more studies to follow… do I want to be one God to look at me as one of a lack of good sense and foresight? Granted, I am known as a pretty strange guy, a funny, weird, entertaining to say the least, good at parties… is that my folly? Am I a fool? Maybe I am. I don’t get advice enough. I just don’t, and that is my folly. Johnny Out.