May 19 - Correction.

Proverbs 26:3
“A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.”
 
Just as a horse needs whipped to keep going and a donkey needs directed which way to go, a rod of correction is fitly used for a fool.
 
Psalm 32:9
“Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.”
 
Correction is needful and necessary.
Proverbs 10:13
“In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.”
 
Wisdom allows us to receive reproof, while a fool disregards any correction.
Proverbs 17:10
“A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.”
 
Children are born into foolishness, and correction is the only way to remove it.
 
Proverbs 22:15
“Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.”
 
Proverbs 23:13
“Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.”
 
We are wise to consider any reproof we are offered rather than to require the rod of correction.
 
 
Bible Reading:
2 Samuel 9-10  |  1 Corinthians 6  |  Proverbs 19