“Trouble, trouble—always trouble!”
What’s your problem, friend?
“You know—if it isn’t the car breaking down, it’s the kids needing new shoes—or something. Never seems to end—trouble is endemic!”
Of course, there’s plenty of trouble—Adam brought that on us. But you don’t have to step into it all the time, everywhere.
“Oh, yeah? Tell me how I can avoid it?”
Do you mind if I let the writer of Proverbs 27:12 do so instead?
“Sure—let him speak.”
A sensible person spots trouble and lies low;
naïve persons continue on and suffer for it.
Get it?
“Not sure.”
Let me explain. Since there is so much trouble, it’s stupid not to be on the lookout for it. To simply run smack into it, unaware of its presence, when you could have anticipated it, makes no sense.
Sensible people avoid much of the trouble that the naïve suffer.
Take your car—did you have it serviced regularly?
“I guess not.”
Then, it’s possible that you brought that trouble on yourself. Right?
“Maybe.”
The kids’ new shoes—you didn’t know they would need them when you let them tramp through the creek with them on—thought it was cute at the time?
“Well . . .”
Look.
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