The Devotional - 1011 - Humility and the Wisdom of God

The Devotional – 1011 – Humility and the Wisdom of God

Men often find themselves trucking down the wrong path; can I get someone to agree with that? There seems to be a fork in every road, you know the signs, those triangular yellow signs with the main road leading off in one direction and the smaller road veering slightly off in another and like a dunderhead you take the wrong fork and refuse to turn around saying to yourself or maybe your wife sitting next to you. “Hey, I think I know where I am going, why just a few years ago I was on this road and it all worked out then and it will work out NOW”! No doubt that extra gallon of gas was not needed, ya think! Time, resources and lives are wasted; not because we leave the main road that God has ordained; life is wasted when we consider the “soul” in front of us as non-useful for the MASTER simply because WE have been offended because they were trucking down the wrong road of the flesh.

Comments and Challenges: 

James 4:7-10

The devil is always looking to trip up the saints of God, he can and he will do just that if we seek to take on anything that is distracting us from the Wisdom of God. Works apart from faith is a distraction from the Wisdom of God, even works of Bible Study, Prayer and Service. Now someone will say that these three areas of spiritual life cannot be a distraction and I will say that over ninety percent of believers in the LORD Jesus Christ do not study the Bible and do not serve in their churches. And to boot over fifty percent of believers do not pray.

So if this is true and it is, then there is a problem that develops called by James “double-mindedness” church leadership see this every time the church family comes together and it is especially visible at the Sunday morning service where the majority of folks come for a weekly dose of religion and not much else. This mindset if left unchecked is purposing in one’s heart to resist “truth” and to remain ignorant of God through pride. Now this is not to say that church leadership is above this problem of worldliness, they are not; a yet because of an attack of pride, leadership can fall to the distraction of double-mindedness too.

So this can and often is the very wedge of the devil that splits a church in two, or will destroy the personal walk of a family of believers or maybe just one member in a family. How then do we put on the brakes of this crippling mindset. It would seem to me and I could be wrong but in James 4:7-8; we submit to God, we resist the devil, we confess our sin to God and we seek to purify our hearts from double-mindedness. Good for us, yet in many cases we fail to go any further. Whether we are leadership or just a member of the church family we fail to mourn and weep with those who are offended and our laughter is visible instead of gloom. 

This is I believe the major subject of faith and works that James discusses with his brethren. There are various trials and temptations that affect the church (the called out ones) of Jesus Christ. Trials and temptations are equal to all, but when we meet these in the “joy of the LORD” rather than the despair of the double mind, we will do service for one-another out of “faith” apart from works.