July 7, 2021 … Seeking Godly Wisdom …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 188 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from The Gettys singing  … Perfect Wisdom of Our God … poignantly singing about how our God provides His perfect wisdom to those who humbly seek it. 

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Highlight Passage:   Proverbs 1:7  [NLT] …  

7 Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. 

… Solomon shows his children that pursuing God’s ways is the way to wisdom and to avoid foolish living. 

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  Proverbs 1:1-9 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Solomon, as a wise father, seeks to provide his children with Godly wise knowledge. 

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 119:105 [NLT] … 

105 Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.  

… God’s word is the light which leads us down the road of life to God’s wise direction.  

Reference Passage: … Proverbs 4:7 [NLT] … 

7 Getting wisdom is the wisest thing you can do!  And whatever else you do, develop good judgment.

… God, thru Solomon, shows us that seeking Godly wisdom is the key to Godly discernment and judgment.  

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! 

… The infinite extend of God’s wisdom is impossible to attain; but the Apostle Paul knew that we must seek it nonetheless. 

Reference Passage: …Ephesians 1:15-17 [NLT] … 

16 I have not stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly, 17 asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God.

… Paul prays for fellow Christians to seek and find Godly wisdom so that they (we) might know and discern the ways of God.  

 

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.  

… James shows that our God is willing - and we certainly know able - to provide His wisdom to those who genuinely seek it.     

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Elisa Morgan, AT THIS LINK … tells of a friend, Ellen, who received a necklace with beads in morse code which spelled out a message of good advice, … saying, “Seek God’s ways!”   

Godly advice for all of us, don’t you think?  And it was certainly the advice of Solomon to his children and God’s advice to all of us (see highlight passage) … that we can find God’s ways by seeking His wisdom, … which according the Scriptures above, God is most willing to provide when we come to Him humbly seeking His direction in life (see photo). 

And oh how I pray that all reading here join me to seek God’s will today and His ways thru His word - i.e., God’s perfect “GPS”  - [see Ps 119:105].  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for showing us Your wisdom and our ways thru Your word again today.         

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … with diligence and determination … to seek out Godly wisdom thru Your word today - and tomorrow.    … Amen

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