Chapter 20 contains much that is practical.

⦁ Drawing the counsel out of your heart through wisdom and prudence.
⦁ Encouragement to press through difficult situations in view of a future harvest.
⦁ That ending a quarrel is honorable.
⦁ That too much drink mocks the drinker and leads them off the right path.
⦁ That no amount of self improvement can erase your past – for that one needs a Savior.
⦁ That age is no cloak for vice. That even a child is known by what they do – no exceptions!
⦁ That dishonesty and deception are hated by God and therefore by those who are truly righteous.
⦁ That speaking against those in authority (esp. one’s father and mother) will place them in deep spiritual darkness!
⦁ To lay hold of an inheritance before the appropriate time will not go unpunished.

But perhaps the greatest proverb is in the title of this message. It teaches us of our tri-part being. That we ARE a spirit which was breathed out the mouth of God, that we possess an inward soul by which we think, desire and feel and that we live in a temporal, physical body. As such, God so created our true selves – our spirit – in such a was a to provide an inner compass for our souls. It is in fact the voice of our conscience, which was initially created by God. Though it can be darkened through rejection of Him and His word, it can still be influenced again by His Spirit through grace to the humble.