Excerpt from Carol Barnier's Engaging Today's Prodigal: clear thinking, new approaches, and reasons for hope:
"Proverbs are sayings that in general are true, but are not intended to be promises.
The beautiful verses in Proverbs are directions on how we should live our lives. They incorporate into their instruction truths about the nature of God and the nature of mankind. Proverbs are sayings that in general are accurate and full of wisdom, straight from God, but are not intended to be promises or formulas or an invitation to insert a coin into a vending-machine God who will pop out your selection.
I believe Scripture is inspired, which means God's stamp of approval is on all of the Canon, including the book of Proverbs. However, as we have seen, there is a difference in proverbs that describe and those that prescribe."
In other words, be careful how you apply Scripture. Make sure you know to whom it is written and for what purpose it is written before you appropriate it to be a life-base for you.
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