Apples of Gold
A Word Fitly Spoken — Proverbs 25:11
Proverbs 7:7
June 13, 2026
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Proverbs 7:7
“And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,”
— Proverbs 7:7
✦ Golden Insight
“The truth at the heart of this verse
Simplicity is not innocence; it is vacancy waiting to be shaped.
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✦ Frame of Silver
“The context and setting that shapes its meaning”
The simple are hollow, not hostile.
Nothing rooted.
Nothing guarding.
Nothing weighing the inward places.
They drift because nothing holds them.
They listen because silence fills them.
They follow because desire leads them.
The tragedy is not rebellion but vacancy.
A heart unanchored moves with whatever current finds it.
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✦ Fruit of Christ
“How this truth bears fruit in a life following Christ”
Christ fills what emptiness invites.
He anchors the drifting.
He steadies the unformed.
He becomes wisdom for the simple
and understanding for the void within.
Where Christ dwells, vacancy becomes fullness
and flattery loses its voice.
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“And the truth held firm.”
— Ophel
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