There is a classic story of a Russian countess who sits in the theater on a cold, winter night. Her emotions are played upon by the sad scene depicted on stage -- so much so that she sheds copious tears. Meanwhile, outside, her coachman is shivering in the cold as he awaits to take her home. She allows the emotion of pity to be excited by an imaginary scene, but refuses to allow pity to play on the chords of her daily life in relation to her driver.

The Proverbs will play on the cords of our daily life if we will allow them. So we are going to look at some of these proverbs on the Sundays during these summer months. In the Bible, the Book of Proverbs follows the Book of Psalms. Professor J. Ritchie Smith has shown us that this arrangement is the order of our life experience. First, religi…