Guard It or Lose It
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If you hate losing, then today's episode is for you. A man has to guard wisdom the way he guards his home and family, because what you don't guard, you will lose.
So what are you actually guarding right now?
Chris Alessi opens a new week in Proverbs 7, where Solomon returns with another warning and another man standing at a crossroads. But before the warning comes a command, repeated three times: keep. In the original language, it's a soldier's word: to guard, to watch over, to protect. Most men treat wisdom like content to consume: a podcast, a sermon, a verse they immediately think someone else needs to hear. Solomon has something far more active in mind.
What you don't guard, you will lose. You don't casually lock your doors or occasionally set the alarm. You guard what matters constantly, because you know what's at stake. Solomon goes one step further: keep my teaching "as the apple of your eye," the most sensitive, instinctively protected part of your body. That's the posture of the principled man toward wisdom: reflexive protection of something he can't afford to lose. Whatever you protect most reveals what you value most.
Verse of the Day: Proverbs 7:1–2
Your Daily Man-Up Challenge
Take inventory today. What are you actively guarding: your marriage, your mind, your integrity, your time with God? Or is it your comfort and your pride? Name one thing you've been passive about and decide today to guard it on purpose.
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