The Winning Wednesdays Podcast: Overcoming Life’s Difficult Seasons

Choose Wisdom

• Geneva Brown • Season 2 • Episode 21

Choose Wisdom, Reject Foolishness
📖 Proverbs 6–9

“For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her.” – Proverbs 8:11 (NIV)

In Proverbs 6–9, Solomon offers powerful instruction and warning, urging us to live wisely, avoid traps of sin, and passionately pursue the voice of wisdom. These chapters contrast the way of wisdom with the way of folly—revealing the blessings of obedience and the destruction that follows foolish choices.

Proverbs 6 teaches us the danger of laziness, dishonesty, and sinful desires. It cautions against foolish financial entanglements, idle living, and sexual immorality—reminding us that sin always carries consequences. God hates pride, lies, division, and a heart that plots evil. We’re called to live with integrity and diligence.

Proverbs 7 gives a vivid warning against temptation, especially sexual immorality. The story of a young man seduced by a deceitful woman is a picture of what happens when we ignore wisdom. The chapter pleads with us to keep God’s Word close—to write it on the tablet of our heart so we can resist when temptation calls.

Proverbs 8 personifies wisdom as a woman calling out to anyone who will listen. Wisdom offers life, understanding, and direction—and says, “I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.” True wisdom begins with the fear of the Lord and leads to lasting rewards.

Proverbs 9 contrasts two invitations: one from Wisdom, and one from Folly. Both call out, but only one leads to life. This chapter asks us to choose our path: Will we pursue wisdom and live? Or follow folly and suffer?


Join me this summer—one chapter at a time—as we walk in wisdom.

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