Proverbs 30:1-3
The words
of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even
unto Ithiel and Ucal, Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the
understanding of a man. I neither learned wisdom,
nor have
the knowledge of the holy.
As this
gentleman begins to give counsel he places himself in a place of humility. He establishes that he is not going to draw
on any inner conclusions he himself has come up with because, in his own
nature, he has nothing to give. It is
always good to establish the fact that the advice we would give someone else is
not from our own resources but derived from the Lord and His word. This is not false humility. It is a statement that helps the person listening
to turn their attention to the Lord and not depend on the counsel of man.
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