Prayer: Father, I need Your wisdom. Help me to take into my heart, one new understanding of Your desire for me. Open my eyes and heart to Your Word. Amen.
Reading: Proverbs 19 key: vs. 8
8 One who gets wisdom loves his own soul.
One who treasures understanding prospers.
Attention: Am I receptive to wisdom? Am I not only open to hearing and reading wisdom, but do I take the wisdom provided me and apply it? Solomon’s statement is worth our consideration. I hope you will ponder and think about what he proposes.
The wisdom of the Bible is mute. It is silent. The Bible speaks, but it must be read or preached. We give the Bible voice by reading it, teaching it, or preaching it. Of its own, the Bible sits silently still until we interact with it.
You will not be exposed to the wisdom of Scripture unless you read it, or someone tells you. Even then, it is the Holy Spirit who must open your eyes and heart to the truth and wisdom of Scripture.
Here is what Paul tells us through his letter to the Corinthians. “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the intelligent.”
Where is the wise one? Where is the Torah scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For seeing that—in God’s wisdom—the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased—through the foolishness of the message proclaimed—to save those who believe.
For Jewish people ask for signs and Greek people seek after wisdom,
but we proclaim Messiah crucified—a stumbling block to Jewish people and foolishness to Gentile people,
but to those who are called (both Jewish and Greek people), Messiah, the power of God and the wisdom of God.
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men (1 Corinthians 1:18-25).”
Do you embrace and live by the wisdom of God? Or do you pick and choose what you want to embrace? Is your wisdom higher than His wisdom? Do we live or fall based on the wisdom we acquire and apply?
Solomon says, “one who gets wisdom loves his own soul. One who treasures understanding prospers.”
Action: I will embrace and apply God’s wisdom as I love my own soul and I want to prosper.
Yield: I surrender my wisdom to God’s wisdom.
Engage: I will engage with the Holy Spirit in applying the wisdom from above!
Relationship: I am in relationship with God when I allow the Holy Spirit to open my eyes and heart to divine wisdom.
Prayer: Father, I love my soul, so I will listen and get wisdom from You and Your Word. Amen.
Memory Verse: James 3:17
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, not hypocritical.
Music Video: Chris McClarney, I’m Listening https://youtu.be/Ef52AmdVwYI
Remember, “Abide in Yeshua, today!”