The Devotional
– 1004 – Enduring Wisdom
While there is little that a
man or woman can do to speak with “absolute authority” nor would I or anyone I know
say that he or she could actually do that; there is at least in my mind a
conclusion to this whole matter of two platforms of wisdom in the world around
us. The one platform of human wisdom has an end, while the other platform of
God’s wisdom has no end; it is eternal. Psalm 119:89 establishes the Word of
God as being “forever” and Proverbs 8 establishes that the wisdom of is the
foundation of creation from the beginning to the end. The world’s wisdom will die,
but the Wisdom of God will remain. The Wisdom of God says that he who sins
against this TRUTH wrongs his own soul and that all of those who hate the
Wisdom of God love death.
Comments
and Challenges:
Throughout
eternity the utterance from my lips will be that “I love the Living Word of
Life”. For me; 1 John 1-4 helps me to understand that while I do not see Jesus
as the apostles did, that I do see Jesus through His Word. I have fellowship
with Jesus through His Word and this fellowship is personal like that of the
writer of Psalm 119. In our devotional time this morning we read the last eight
verses 169-176, which are very personal pleas of the psalmist to have comfort
and confidence in His Savior. These pleas are “eternal life” builders, in other
words the writer is seeking sanctification. Now the question for you and me is:
Do we seriously seek for God to sanctify us, or are we working out our own way
of pleasing God?
James 1:1-8
– There are so many trials within the day that it is often very hard to keep up
with them. Being overwhelmed with things is a way of life for most. Struggles
with friends and relatives, difficulties with work or working companions,
sickness and disease looming overhead and the unexpected melt down or accident
is always in the fore shadows.
In the vernacular
of a Jewish response we might hear “ooie; I should be so blessed” as he sees
the freight train coming toward him. Now life is either an oncoming “out of
control” freight train, or it is an opportunity for joyful blessing it depends
though of which platform of wisdom you or I decide to use to deal with every
moment in time. Faith in the wisdom of God works patience in trials and
testing, while faith in the worlds system provides anxiety of spirit.
Life is
designed by God and founded upon His Wisdom. By the way, you and I do not have
the Wisdom of God as we ought, but praise God who will give us His Wisdom if we
simply ask Him. The only prerequisite of this request is that we believe He
will give it to us if we ask. Now I do know about me and you know about you…
ever ask someone for something with the intent that they will not provide? Yes I
am sure you have and guess what? You did not get what you asked for because
they could see that you did not believe you would get it in the first place.
So much
better it is that if we should ask “believing” or “by faith” the results are
the confident expectation of receiving what we had hoped for. If we do this
with our human encounters “and we do” and see the benefit, how much better will
it be when we lay aside the double-mindedness of doubt and ask the LORD for the
wisdom to deal with the train wreck ahead. Instability is the way of life for
earthly wisdom because earthly wisdom reacts to emotion. Emotion has no faith and
is full of fear and those who are led by the world’s wisdom are emotionally unstable
and untrustworthy.
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