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25.157 | DO VALUE A FRIEND’S ADVICE | Proverbs 27:9-10 | God’s Word for Today with Pastor Nazario Sinon
Text: Proverbs 27:9-10 (ESV)
9 Oil and perfume make the heart glad,
and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
10 Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend,
and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is near
than a brother who is far away.
DO VALUE A FRIEND’S ADVICE
In the ancient world, oil was used popularly for soothing wounds and for giving a massage. The Good Samaritan used oil and wine to treat an abused traveler's wounds (Luke 10:34). James also mentions the anointing of the sick with oil (Jas 5:14). A woman of ill repute washed Jesus' feet with expensive ointment and received His commendation (Luke 7:37–48). The same concept is used here of healing and honor tthrough the loving advices given by a true friend.
A friend who is like a soothing oil is priceless. Solomon writes, "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!" [Ecc 4:9–10] Such friend shows genuine love and is often expressed as correction (v.5–6). It is well-timed and well-suited to the situation (Prov 15:23).
The implication of the Hebrew phrases used here is to take a friend's advice than insisting on one's own opinion. Indeed, a loving guidance is pleasant and valuable. In some interpretations like the NIV, it implies that what makes a friendship pleasant is the "heartfelt advice" it brings.
Each one of us do have a blind spot, don’t we? It will take a genuine friend to alert us to warn us not to fall into ruin. Let’s not be a person who is easy to take an offense. Someone who has an onion skin. When a stranger will say something about us, me may not pay careful attention. But, we should pay attention to a loving friend. He is ‘speaking the truth in love.” [Eph 4:15] Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
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By Gospel Light FilipinoText: Proverbs 27:9-10 (ESV)
9 Oil and perfume make the heart glad,
and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
10 Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend,
and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is near
than a brother who is far away.
DO VALUE A FRIEND’S ADVICE
In the ancient world, oil was used popularly for soothing wounds and for giving a massage. The Good Samaritan used oil and wine to treat an abused traveler's wounds (Luke 10:34). James also mentions the anointing of the sick with oil (Jas 5:14). A woman of ill repute washed Jesus' feet with expensive ointment and received His commendation (Luke 7:37–48). The same concept is used here of healing and honor tthrough the loving advices given by a true friend.
A friend who is like a soothing oil is priceless. Solomon writes, "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!" [Ecc 4:9–10] Such friend shows genuine love and is often expressed as correction (v.5–6). It is well-timed and well-suited to the situation (Prov 15:23).
The implication of the Hebrew phrases used here is to take a friend's advice than insisting on one's own opinion. Indeed, a loving guidance is pleasant and valuable. In some interpretations like the NIV, it implies that what makes a friendship pleasant is the "heartfelt advice" it brings.
Each one of us do have a blind spot, don’t we? It will take a genuine friend to alert us to warn us not to fall into ruin. Let’s not be a person who is easy to take an offense. Someone who has an onion skin. When a stranger will say something about us, me may not pay careful attention. But, we should pay attention to a loving friend. He is ‘speaking the truth in love.” [Eph 4:15] Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
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