20 Listen to advice and accept discipline, So that you may be wise the rest of your days. 21 Many plans are in a person's heart, But the advice of the LORD will stand.  (Proverbs 19:20-21)

Be a teachable person, one who will listen to counsel and receive instruction, and you will be on the path to wisdom. If you want to be wise later in life, start now by being a teachable person.

4 "You shall follow the LORD your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.  (Deuteronomy 13:4)

Keep close to God, and he can keep you out of harm's way. God never leaves us till we leave him."

6 Seek the LORD while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return to the LORD, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon. 8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. 9 "For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.

(Isaiah 55:6-9)

There is still the possibility of reconciliation and forgiveness. God is greater than man; as such, his thoughts cannot be likened to man’s thoughts. Man’s thoughts are evil for evil, but God can be gracious even when he has been hurt, dishonored, and disobeyed. Now is the day for the people to come to God in faith. The prophet calls on the people to respond by signing the contract and seeking him in the present moment.