Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and do not sell it, also wisdom and instruction and understanding.

How willing are you to find out the truth? How willing are you to make a stand against the normal and find out what is actually going on?

It is so much easier just to go along with what is happening and make up your own mind than to stop and find out the truth; especially if we have to pay for it!

Buying the truth may well be the only way we get to hear it. Be willing to find it and if necessary purchase it too.

When you do find the truth you will not be sorry for having to spend a little.

Proverbs 23:19 Hear, my son, and be wise; and guide your heart in the way.

If we do not listen to instruction then we are not going to be able to learn. If we ignore good instruction then we are being ignorant.

God has given us many people in our lives that can show us the truth and instruct us in the ways that we should go; but it is our choice as to whether we listen or not.

No matter what upbringing we have had, there has always been an example or a person that has been standing up for God as our example.

God is trying to give us the advice, we just need to listen and take it in!

Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

Is it strange for you to read words like this saying that your father would be proudest when you did right but your mother would bear the grief if you did wrong?

We live in a very different world than when these words were written, but they still ring true in the sense that the head of the household will carry the pride, but the loving parent will bear the sorrow.

God has given us the example of love and marriage so that we can have functioning families who help and support each other; however you define it, we need families who love God!