The Devotional - 07

The Devotional

Comment:

Ever heard or thought, “If I could just escape to a deserted island”! No doubt that everyone beyond the age of thirty-five has and a few younger people too. Even so, if you were to go to such a haven of rest, what might you find? The very first thing that crosses my mind is: “Do I really have the understanding to be here”? Could be that if I do not know how to live alone and in a place that is hostile in meeting all of my “needs” all I really have accomplished is fulfilling the “wants” in my heart. No doubt about it, it is more important to have our needs met than having our wants fulfilled!

Challenge:

I find that our world without God is a deserted island when it comes to the Wisdom and knowledge of God.

Our second challenge from the Book of Proverbs regarding the natural mind of human kind is that we are more than willing to place our self in harm’s way than one might expect. This is because we lack understanding, if we survive the harm that is caused by our ill powers of thinking we might be considered wise or brave, but in our personal mind we might just hear the voice of our conscience say, “now that was stupid, wasn’t it”! So it will be with our last breath if we lack the wisdom and knowledge of God.

Now of course, here is the rub! Doing something without the wisdom to do it is foolish! Many people are injured or worse daily because they do things that they have heard of, but have no wisdom of and therefore have no practical knowledge to properly do what they intended. What an example? What about the youngster who hears about a drug that will make him or her feel as though life is actually okay when they are taking it… and the policing authority has to go to the home of that child with the sad news of death and overdose the cause.

Proverbs 10:13 NKJV – Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has understanding, but a rod is for the back of him who is devoid of understanding.

Proverbs 10:13 NIV – Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks judgment.

Psalm 139 a Psalm of David, in this Psalm David speaks of God’s goodness (His Character) and His faithfulness (an Attribute) of the goodness of God. God is faithful to know us intimately, He is faithful to know our every move, He is faithful to understand our thoughts and He is faithful to understand the path we are on, He even understands our restful moments. God knows our ways, the words on our tongue and altogether with this wisdom, often in spite of our rebellious ways, in His faithfulness He protects us. (Watch this!) Such “KNOWLEDGE” is too wonderful for me, it is high, I cannot attain it – Verses 1-6.

How is it; that God has a Perfect knowledge of Man and we have such a shallow knowledge of God? If we knew God as we ought, we would be a discerning people and we would not lack judgment. “For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” Isaiah 29:14, God speaking through the Prophet Isaiah regarding the world’s intelligence… it will vanish… see 1 Corinthians 1:18-21. It is never too late to get on board with God’s Wisdom!