Wise words

In fact, any Christian wanting to gain God’s perspective on life would find it of value. Wingate’s aim is to summarise some of the key principles found in the book of Proverbs so that ‘simple words of spiritual wisdom become the foundation upon which [my own children] build their lives’ in order to gain ‘real satisfaction’. He sees Proverbs as a ‘road map for life’ (p.2), with the goal of writing a book on ‘life’s most important lessons’ (p.xiii). From the beginning he emphasises the two main paths in Scripture: the one of self-reliance leading to destruction and ruin, and the other being the path of God, of abundance and blessing. And so he focuses his book on how to attain this blessing in practical terms.

Sophia Williams