More then a warrior Fathers Day Introduction:  So I know that most find people find school awful. But it was usually pretty easy for me. High school especially. I breezed through classes like math and science. Gym sucked, but I did it the summer so it was only two weeks. I had a guitar class and a work experience class which were basically free credits. Overall I found school to be pretty simple. But, there was one thing. There was one part of school that filled me with the same dread and despair as everyone else. It came up every single year and I hate it more then anything else to do with being a student.Well I loved english classed, I absolutely despised the Poetry unit. I don’t know how it is out here in Saskatchewan but in Alberta we had to do a unit of Poetry every year from grade seven to twelve. Every year it was like hell for me. The teacher would read a poem out loud or give it to us to read and I would just… sit there. I would sit there and either not understand what the poem was about, or not understand why it took someone so many words to describe something! Like, why did you find the need to write an entire page on what snow was like, and more importantly where did you find the time. Even as a teenager I was way to busy for that garbage. Every year I struggled with poetry. When I finally finished high school I thought I was done with poetry. My torture was over. Unfortunately, Bible college was just more poetry!In fact, an entire third of what is written in the Bible is poetry! I managed to pick the one job outside of an art major where I needed to understand poetry. I had to spend class after class dissecting ancient biblical poetry at vanguard. Great.Luckily, over the past years I’ve found an appreciation for biblical poetry. I’ve found that God has hidden such a depth of knowledge and wisdom for us within the words of the Bible. Today, we are going to look at the poetry of Proverbs, specifically Proverbs 16:32. It’s one of the first verses that really connected with me and one that has far a far deeper meaning then it would seem on the surface. Section 1: Poetry in Montage Proverbs is a really weird book. It’s not a narrative like other books in the Bible. There is no story in it. It’s not a prophetic book, where someone is warning God’s people to turn away from sin. Instead it’s simply full of these little quippy two line poems that give advice. They usually talk about either how people should behave, or how the world works. For example “The crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold but the LORD tests hearts.”. Thats about how the world works. Meanwhile our verse talks about how people should behave Whoever is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. So that verse seems really simple right? Anger bad, patience good. Well, yes and no. That is the point this verse is trying to make. But there is more depth. If you understand that its a poem, it because a far more meaningful passage. To understand this proverb we have to understand the book itself. The title Proverbs is the Hebrew word literally means Comparisons. Proverbs is the Book of Comparisons. Thats how proverbs poetry works. You have two lines and when they are played together they become more then the sum of their parts. You might have two lines that are complete opposites to contrast one another. Or in our case you have two lines that are very similar to each other. Both lines seem to say anger is bad with slightly different words. You might be wondering what I did when I first saw this proverb. What is the point? Why say the same line twice? Why not just say it once and be done? Well, like me you’d be missing the point, because we do this in western culture all the time. See, our proverb isn’t just poetry, it’s poetry in montage. Sergi Eisentein, a famous Russian filmmaker seen as the father of montage believed that