Prayer: Father, from You flows wisdom. I am invited today to seek wisdom, to come, take a drink, it is available to all. May we together invite many to take You up on the invitation. Amen.
Reading: Provers 8 key: vs. 17
17 I love those who love me.
Those who earnestly seek me find me.
Attention: Have you ever played the children’s game, Hide and Seek? One child closes their eyes while the other children hide within a defined area. A few years ago, when I was driving school bus for a public school district, I had a Kindergarten route. I picked up daily, three or four students at an elementary school who came from early morning childcare program. We had about a ten minute lay over before we started the route to pick up the rest of the children’s classmates. They loved to play hide and seek. The rules were, they had to stay inside the bus, no hiding on the floor or under seats, and no screaming.
Have you ever watched five-year-olds play the game of Hide and Seek? They get so excited over discovering each other. At that age, if they cannot see you, you do not exist, momentarily. However, their imaginations are vivid, and their excitement is genuine.
In the Bible, we are told through the writings of the prophet Jeremiah about Adonai, “You will see Me and find Me, when you will search for Me with all your heart. Then I will be found by you” (29:13-14a). Jeremiah was speaking to the exiled Hebrew nation. “I have a plan for you… plans for shalom (peace) and not calamity—to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call on Me, and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.” Adonai is promising those in exile, that while He is the One who is disciplining the nation, He will return them to their promised land, when they turn to Him and seek Him with all their heart.
Do those words ring true to you today? Has He not told us similar words through Moses in Deuteronomy 10:12-13?, “So now, O Israel, what does Adonai your God require of you, but to fear Adonai your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him , and to serve Adonai you God with all your heart and with all your soul, to keep the mitzvot of Adonai and His statutes that I am commanding you today, for your own good?” Yes, similar words were echoed by a Torah lawyer and recorded by Luke, “You shall love Adonai your God with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” Yeshua’s response to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this and you will live.”
These words are true today. Solomon writes similar words about wisdom today. “Blessed is the one who listens to me… For whoever finds me (wisdom) finds life and obtains favor from Adonai, but whoever fails to find me harms his life—all who hate me love death” (vs. 34-36).
We must not only seek wisdom from above, but we must seek the One who gives us life and wisdom.
Action: I will seek Adonai above everything else. When I find Adonai, I find wisdom and life, and joy, and peace, and love.
Yield: When I give up things to seek Adonai, I am yielded to Him.
Engage: To engage is to seek and to find.
Relationship: When I have Adonai, I have the source to all wisdom.
Prayer: Father, may I seek You more than anything else. Thank You for the promise that if I seek You with all my heart, I will find You. Amen.
Memory Verse: Deuteronomy 10: 12
12 “So now, O Israel, what does Adonai your God require of you, but to fear Adonai your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Music Video: Natalie Grant – More Than Anything
Remember, “Abide in Yeshua, today!”