The Devotional – 1405 – Wisdom! Is that the Truth?

The Devotional – 1405 – Wisdom! Is that the Truth?

Proverbs 8:12-14 – I, wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge and discretion. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverse mouth I hate. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, I have strength.

 

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Do we give much thought to the day ahead before we bolt through the door and head off for the morning rush? Be it work traffic, or waiting in line as your contemporaries wait for their turn to go through the drive thru and get their morning jolt of coffee or some other hot beverage claiming to be “coffee”. Yes, the traffic, weather, people, the blaring noise of the radio and a host of other “interferences” flood the mind and remove from you from the peace of the pillow 20 minutes ago; any and every distraction under the sun overcasts the remainder of the day.

Of course if the pillow was not peaceful, then you might be as cranky as the rest of the noise makers around you, huh? Well this I conclude, if you are a noise maker by choice than you are not reading this devotional; in fact the noise makers of the world around us have no clue of the peace that surpasses all understanding. You and I look for the LORD to intercede for us through the wisdom and understanding of His Word. Philippians 4:6-7. We search eagerly for the things that are true, noble, just, pure, lovely, and of good report. This is being spiritually minded, virtuous and praiseworthy and God has shown us in His Word how to meditate on these things. Philippians 4:8-9.

A friend and late pastor used to say “would to God that we would come to grips with “Truth” I agree with him; TRUTH is WISDOM and as ONE; these speak in clear language that God is True, therefore all men that do not have the truth are LIARS. And according to the Apostle Paul and King David in Romans 3:1-4 and Psalm 116:8-11, even those who do have the wisdom and knowledge of God have trouble with speaking truth.

Psalm 117 is only two verses long a quick little song or hymn that we should be mindful of and sing it every morning. It goes like this: “O Praise the LORD all you people groups, praise Him all you peoples! For His merciful kindness is great toward us, and the TRUTH of the LORD endures FOREVER”.

Now a warning, “we like the world around us can turn up the volume of those words and sound like; “Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal” 1 Corinthians 13:1; AS ALL TOO OFTEN WE DO! Or we can as God intended, meditate in our heart on these things first, before we step on the accelerator of the DAY, before we mindlessly belch and burp our displeasure of the morning rush.

Here is another view of cheerfulness to ponder: But this I say; “he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work”, 2 Corinthians 9:6-8.

I believe that God through the Holy Spirit has given all believers in Jesus Christ the gift of “Giving” as the apostle Paul begins this exhortation to the Corinthians in Chapter 8 of 2 Corinthians; he discusses the poverty stricken churches in Macedonia who were beyond poor in material things. Paul bears witness of this poverty but says that these churches gave all the more… first of themselves and then of their substance. We need to give of ourselves FIRST!

The churches of today in these United States for the most part are not poverty stricken, we are not afraid to toss money at projects and people; but we are afraid when it comes to speaking TRUTH. The reason is that we are mighty in the things of the WORLD, but poor in the wisdom of the WORD. Our meditation of Truth is not as good as our meditation on the rush of the day simply because our priority of living life is off track. I pray that we will take the “L” (living) out of the WORLD around us and return to what God has given to each of His saints… HIS WORD!

Thus if we are to be joyful givers of Life in Christ, we must go to the word of God. Areas of scripture like Proverbs 8:1-36 or Psalm 19: 1-14 are good starting points; then God will direct your steps to a joyful day, rejoicing in Him.