Read Pr. 26:7-9
All three of these verses talk about giving wisdom to people that are not mature enough to handle it or use it wisely. First he compares it to the legs of a lame person. Their legs are not even so their walk will not be straight. In the Hebrew "lame" means to hop or skip over. It reminds me of the show Home Improvements when the neighbor, Wilson would give Tim wise advise only to have Tim totally miss the point and end up with something silly. Spiritually it would be like someone who takes a part of the scripture but doesn't line it up with other scripture so the meaning is false. The next simile is a stone bound in a sling. The stone stands for the Word that someone binds. The fool is someone who knows the Word but denies the power of it. He has no faith to activate the Word so it is bound by their unbelief. Jesus encountered that in his own country and could not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief. The third one was the drunkard with the thorn in his hand. A person who is drunk feels no pain so he wouldn't even know he had a thorn in it. It would not be wise to tell this man the secrets of the kingdom. This drunk person with the thorn in his hand is a person who is blind to the things of God. He is under a curse of sin but instead of letting Jesus's thorns attone for him he carries them unknowingly. Verse 10 tells us their end. They will be rewarded for all they have done. If a workman is a bad worker his reward will not be very much and may even be punishment. The same is true of the fool. Luke 23:41 Says: "...for we receive the due reward of our deeds..."
Lord, give your word to the wise and proclaim your glory to the earth.
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