Today Our Daily Bread Proverbs 9

For the report of your obedience has reached to all; therefore I am rejoicing over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. Romans 16:19-20

Quickly, speedily & swiftly are all read a bit different and with a bit more emphasis than "soon". And so we could read: and the God of peace, will quickly and speedily and swiftly crush satan under your feet! Sound a bit different? It takes the word from the future and brings it into today and where we do not wait for it, but it appears. It is here and now! And look at "simple or innocent", it means: harmless, without a mixture of evil in it. "Good without evil?" Yes! I’m to be wise, or a doer of God’s words that I both hear and understand, the very words that come from what is God. God is Good, the tree of life is good, and I am unharmed from any evil work there, in that place where I do the word of God, there is no room for anything else there, in that place.

Proverbs 9: 1 - 18
1 Wisdom has built her spacious house with seven pillars. 2 She has prepared a great banquet, mixed the wines, and set the table. 3 She has sent her servants to invite everyone to come. She calls out from the heights overlooking the city. 4 "Come home with me," she urges the simple. To those without good judgment, she says, 5 "Come, eat my food, and drink the wine I have mixed. 6 Leave your foolish ways behind, and begin to live; learn how to be wise." 7 Anyone who rebukes a mocker will get a smart retort. Anyone who rebukes the wicked will get hurt. 8 So don't bother rebuking mockers; they will only hate you. But the wise, when rebuked, will love you all the more. 9 Teach the wise, and they will be wiser. Teach the righteous, and they will learn more. 10 Fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge of the Holy One results in understanding. 11 Wisdom will multiply your days and add years to your life. 12 If you become wise, you will be the one to benefit. If you scorn wisdom, you will be the one to suffer.
13 The woman named Folly is loud and brash. She is ignorant and doesn't even know it. 14 She sits in her doorway on the heights overlooking the city. 15 She calls out to men going by who are minding their own business. 16 "Come home with me," she urges the simple. To those without good judgment, she says, 17 "Stolen water is refreshing; food eaten in secret tastes the best!" 18 But the men don't realize that her former guests are now in the grave. F16
FOOTNOTES:F16: Hebrew in Sheol.
~ Lena’s Journalin’~
To make the # 7 one can add 4 + 3. 4 represents earth, 3 represents Heaven & God, Heaven come to earth, heaven’s influence on earth, Heaven modeled in earth etc. Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven- THAT is wisdom or knowledge and understanding applied. She has prepared a great banquet? There is a banqueting table being set even now for the time when the bride who is His will sit and dine with Him. Are we preparing for this banquet, have we made way for those who are invited to come? He calls them, do we welcome and urge them? Why does one who is wise learn more? Because he is wise enough to want to, to receive more and more. The fool does not concern himself with wisdom and what would please God and help others, he is completely self-centered in nature. How would we fear God? By honoring and respecting what He says, has said and will say. Respect it enough to do it, to live it.