January 20, 2022 … Growing In Wisdom …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 20

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in a song and lyrics from Hillsong United singing … Your Word … poignantly singing of how we must seek and follow God’s word as the source of all wisdom and direction in life. 

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Highlight Passage: …  Proverbs 1:5a [NLT] …   

5 Let the wise listen to these proverbs and become even wiser.  

… Solomon shows that the wise become wiser by seeking to follow God’s ways.                

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Highlight Passage [Context]: … Proverbs 1:1-7 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Solomon shows that God gives him Godly wisdom to share with others who seek to grow in Godliness.                         

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Reference Passage: … Psalm 119:15-16 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… King David sings to show how he sought to follow God’s ways by following God’s word.  

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. …  

… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to seek after Godliness thru God’s word and to teach others His ways thru His word.  

Reference Passage: … 2Timothy 3:16-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Paul teaching Timothy (and us) that God’s word is the source of all wisdom and direction in life.

Reference Passage</u>: … 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 Jesus’ brother, James, shows fellow Christians that God is willing to give us Godly wisdom if we’re but willing to seek it in faith. 

          

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Cindy Hess Kasper, AT THIS LINK … relays a story of a young journalist who related that he gained his love of journalism when his mother, on her ride home on the subway each night would collect discarded newspapers and give them to him, which he devoured daily to gain a hunger for the truth.   

And that’s what God’s word calls us to do; but not from newspapers … but from God’s truth!    When we read (see highlight passage) of how Solomon wanted his son to realize how we gain Godly wisdom; …  and how King David sought after wisdom from God’s commands (see Ps 119 above); … and how the Apostle Paul desired fellow Christians to grow in Godly direction (see Col 3:16 and 2Tim 3:16 above); … and how Jesus’ brother James taught fellow Christians  (see James 1:5 above) to seek after Godly wisdom, I’m praying we take on the attitude of the young journalist in the ODB story.

However, my prayer for my readers … and myself, … is not to follow the ways of the world thru newspapers; … but to follow the wisdom from God’s word above and seek to grow in Christlikeness by doing what I’m doing here - and what I do each morning to start my day - and that is to seek out my direction and purpose from God’s word. 

And I pray that for you too!!   

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your wisdom and direction generously from Your word.         

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, …  to seek out Your wisdom and direction, Lord, from Your eternal “GPS.” … and that is Your word. … Amen

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Blogger Note:  Everyday during this year, my daily devotional blogs are influenced by the reading and study of the online devotional blog entitled “Our Daily Bread,” distributed online via email by RBC Ministries.  If you GO TO THIS LINK on the date of my blog, you can read/study the ODB blogs; or you can subscribe to the blog via email at that site.