September 11, 2023 … Choosing Godly Wisdom …

September 11, 2023 …  Choosing Godly Wisdom  …    

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Kristyn Getty singing … Perfect Wisdom of Our God … poignantly singing of God’s perfect wisdom given to The Lord’s faithful followers.   

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Highlight Passage: … James 3:13 [NLT] … 

13 If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom.  

…God’s faithful followers pursue and follow God’s ways, showing their (our) wisdom by the way they (we) live for God.           

               

Highlight Passage (Context): … James 3:13-18 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… God, thru James, calls on His children - i.e., Christians - to pursue Godly wisdom. .                 

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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 1:7, 3:18, 4:7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…God, thru Solomon, repetitively exhorts God’s faithful to pursue Godly wisdom        

Reference Passage: … Matthew 7:24 [NLT] …  

24 “Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock..  

… Jesus teaches truth to His followers that wisdom is listening and following His ways and words.  

Reference Passage: … Luke 21:14-15 [NLT] …  

14 So don’t worry in advance about how to answer the charges against you, 15 for I will give you the right words and such wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to reply or refute you!.  

… Jesus foretells of the persecution of Christians; but He promises to give His faithful followers wisdom and words that the world will not understand.      

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 5:15-16 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to show Godly wisdom by taking every opportunity in this world to follow and live Godly lives.      

Reference Passage: … Colossians 4:5-6 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul again exhorts fellow Christians to do all they (we) can to show Godly wisdom by our Godly thoughts, words, and actions.         

                                                                                                                                        

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Sheridan Voysey   … AT THIS LINK …   related a story about a policeman offering himself to replace a woman taken hostage by a terrorist, … a strategy which went against worldly wisdom, putting himself in jeopardy to save the woman.  But that’s the kind of wisdom which is promoted by God, isn’t it?         

And I pray that all reading here with me have taken in the linked song and the Scriptures above; and we’re all in agreement that we all need to e be pursuing GODLY WISDOM rather than the wisdom of our selfish nature or the ways of this world <b>(see photo)</b>.  That’s what our Lord desires from all who would follow after Him as disciples; and it’s what I pray for all of us.      

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling and leading us to choose Your wisdom, Lord.     

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to choose Your Godly wisdom for our lives, everyday, Lord..  … Amen

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