Wisdom

What is wisdom? It might be reading the directions before you assemble that entertainment center or that new bicycle. It might also be asking directions when you discover that you are lost. It might also be when you realize that you should keep your mouth closed in a certain conversation. Wisdom is more than being smart. You can find people who are very smart who are not very wise. There are probably a lot of people who are smart but lacking in wisdom, who often find themselves in trouble. God speaks about wisdom many times in the Scripture but one of the most famous verses is found in the following verse. James 1:5 says, "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him."

God reminds us that true wisdom is that which is going to come from Him. Wisdom will be that which follows Scriptural principles. It is also involved in the working out of those principles in your daily life. This means that the Scriptures will be practical to you. They will not just contain a lot of maxims that are stored away in your memory bank. They will be principles by which you can live your life. So, have you prayed to God for wisdom? If you have, you will soon find that He will give you many opportunities in which to practice the wisdom that He is giving you. You will find that your life will be criss crossed with other people. As these people get involved in your life, you will have opportunities to exercise your wisdom. There will be times in which you should speak and there will be times where you should keep silent. There will be times when you need to do nothing more than to listen, to console, to comfort, to pray. There will be other times when you will need to offer advice. The wisdom comes in knowing when you should take this or that course of action. Just remember that praying for wisdom will not make it work out in your life. You pray for it and God gives it to you, but you must work it out. You must choose when to do this or that. When Jesus worked with Nicodemus in John 3 and the Woman at the well in John 4, He worked with them in different ways. It is a good example of wisdom. One man wrote the following words,

"God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference."

Praise God for supplying you with the wisdom you need in this life.

What are my thoughts for today? raining....dinner.....lesson....the same as much of the time, and oh hes, another doctor's appointment on Friday

Hope

Quite often, when people are approached about their eternal destiny, they will come up with the answer to the question about arriving in heaven, "Well, I hope so." We use the word "hope" quite a lot these days. For most of the world, the word hope is something that may or may not happen. For them, it would be good if it did happen, but it may not necessarily be so. On the other hand, for the believer, the word "hope" has quite a different meaning. Colossians 1:5 says, "For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;" We find the word used about 127 times in the Bible and that makes it very important. Biblical hope however, is quite different than the hope that comes from the world. Biblical hope is always a confident expectation. It is something that is guaranteed to take place. There is not a 50-50 chance of it occurring nor is there just a possibility that it will occur. No, the truth about Biblical hope is that it will take place just as promised in the Bible. When Paul spoke to the Colossians about the "hope" that was laid up for them in heaven, he was speaking about something that was guaranteed.
The use of the word in the Christian sense is the only case where hope is guaranteed. We can say that because we base our findings upon the fact that the Bible has always been proved to be correct and the promises that God has made in the past have always come to be exactly as He said they would, even when they might sound ridiculous at the time. For Job to say that God hangs the earth upon nothing, may seem to be a far out statement. Yet, "nothing" is a pretty good explanation of space in the universe. For centuries, this seemed to be impossible yet, it has been proven to be correct. The Hittites were long thought to be a fictitious people but during the 20th century, were found to be exactly as God said they were. All of this to say that when you have your hope in God and His plan and when your hope is heaven, you can be assured that it is a confident expectation and that it is a guaranteed precept. Praise God today for giving you a hope for the days ahead.

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