Accepting Rebuke
Patient Humility “Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you” (Proverbs 9:8, scriptures from NASB unless otherwise noted). — Brett Blackwell This proverb is a “hard saying” for several reasons. First, reproof is hard to give sincerely, and in most cases, even harder to receive sincerely. Second, the proverb deals only in extremes. It identifies two distinct subjects of reproof, the scoffer and the wise man. There are two opposing effects of re-proof: […]