Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 243
Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Kristyn Getty singing a Stuart Townsend’s song … The Perfect Wisdom of Our God … poignantly singing of our God revealing His perfect wisdom thru His creation to those who desperately need His lead in life.
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Highlight Passage: … Ecclesiastes 1:18 [NLT] …
18 The greater my wisdom, the greater my grief. To increase knowledge only increases sorrow.
… Solomon shows how perplexing it can be to gain Godly wisdom and to be able see and realize the degradation in the world’s condition.
Highlight Passage (Context): … Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Solomon helps anyone who will listen to his discoveries about life that coming to a fear of God can be painful when one views the condition of the world.
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Reference Passage: … Job 28:28 [NLT] …
28 And this is what He says to all humanity: “The fear of hate LORD is true wisdom; … to forsake evil is real understanding.”
… God speaks about true wisdom to all who would listen, including Job, who was so confused about his horrible condition.
Reference Passage: … Psalm 111:10 [NLT] …
10 Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true wisdom. All who obey His commandments will grow in wisdom.
… God’s psalmist, likely King David, sings of the truth that true wisdom is found in those who obey God’s word.
Reference Passage: … Proverbs 1:7 [NLT] … <
7 Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
… Knowing God is the beginning of all true knowledge.
Reference Passage: … Ecclesiastes 12:13 [NLT] …
13 That’s the whole story. Here now is my final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commands, for this is everyone’s duty.
… Solomon’s final conclusion on God’s charge to all who would believe and follow Him.
Reference Passage: … Luke 1:50 [NLT] …
50 He [the LORD] shows mercy from generation to generation to all who fear Him. </i>
… Mary, inspired by God, sings truth about God showing mercy to all who come to fear the LORD.
My Devotional Journal:Today's Our Daily Bread author, Mike Witmer … AT THIS LINK … wrote of a friend, coming back from a long rafting trip thru the Grand Canyon, to learn of the onslaught of the COVID pandemic and wishing that the rafting crew could go back to the joy of entering their trip without knowing about the COVID crisis. Sometimes ignorance is bliss, isn’t it?
It’s a conundrum, … that the more we gain of God’s wisdom, the more easily we can see the paltry condition of God’s creation and how far man has fallen from God’s perfection in the Garden. Oh how we Christians would like to return to that beginning, wouldn’t we? But we can’t.
And that’s what Solomon wrote about in the book of Ecclesiastes (see highlight passage); and it’s what we read about in the truth of the Scriptures above; … that Godly wisdom only comes in knowing God’s truth and following it - in faith - no matter where it might lead us. And that’s why you find me back here - into God word daily - seeking to know my Lord’s way in order to follow it in life again today.
My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your word that I might know You more intimately and to follow Your ways for my life.
My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to follow Your ways, Lord, thru Your word, …no matter where You will lead us in life. … 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.
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