Proverbs 19:8

Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good. [Proverbs 19:8]   In an age of anti-intellectual emotionalism and anti-emotional intellectualism, Scripture provides the sanity which both sides recoil from (Ps. 10:4). The balance is difficult and not merely quantitative. Sinful man abhors it, in part because it resists making excuses…