October 8, 2023… Seeking God’s Wisdom …

October 8, 2023… Seeking God’s Wisdom …   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from The Gettys singing … The Perfect Wisdom of Our God …  Poignantly singing of how we Christians seek to follow God’s perfect wisdom.       

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Highlight Passage: … Proverbs 4:5 [NLT] … 

5 Get wisdom; develop good judgment.  Don’t forget My words or torn away from them.   

…Solomon charges the young and immature to get and follow Godly wisdom from God’s word.                    

<b><u>Highlight Passage (Context)</u>: … Proverbs 4:1-19  [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  </b>

…God’s word, thru Solomon, changes His faithful followers to walk in Godly wisdom.                   

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Reference Passage: …  Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … 

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.  6 Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take. 

… God, thru Solomon, exhorts mankind to avoid seeking solutions to life’s problems through our knowledge,  … rather trusting in God’s will and His wisdom.   

Reference Passage: …  Romans 11:33 [NLT] … 

33 Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand His decisions and His ways!. 

… Paul teaches fellow Christians that God’s wisdom is far superior to man’s solutions and difficult to follow. 

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 1:16-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul prays for fellow Christians to seek and use God’s wisdom to deal with life’s problems. 

Reference Passage: … Colossians 3:16a [NLT] … 

16  Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives.  Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom He gives. …   

… Again the Apostle Paul exhorts his fellow Christians to use Godly wisdom to counsel one another.  . 

Reference Passage: … James 1:5 [NLT] … 

5 If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and He will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking.. 

… God, thru the writing of James, encourages fellow Christians to seek and follow God’s wisdom.           

                                                                              

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Winn Collier… AT THIS LINK …   tells of the world leaders ignoring Godly logic and letting WW1 become an agent for spreading the Spanish flu in 1918 which killed more than twice as many people as were killed by the World War.  

If my readers have taken in the linked song and the Scriptures above, I hope and pray we’ve gotten God’s message that we need to seek and follow GOD”S wisdom rather than deal with the problems of life by following our own … human … understanding.  And God’s word is clear … that if we seek and follow God’s will and His wisdom, He will give it ti us in abundance and lead us to walk in His ways.  Personally I think that’s a good “battle plan” for life, … don’t you?     

 

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me to seek - and follow - Your ways and wisdom, Lord.                                

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to follow Your wisdom, Lord, from Your word.    … Amen

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