The Wise or Foolish Path 07.23.08 Hello My Friend/Guest, It is Wednesday July 23, 2008 and today we are continuing our studies on the book of Proverbs. Please read Chapters 8-11 in your Bible or Click Here to read. Cut & Paste to your browser: biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%208-11&version=9 Today we will read and learn about the benefits of wisdom; and the contrast between the wise and foolish. Today's message focuses on the importance of realizing that we have two choices in life, to be wise or foolish. Nothing in life is to be more treasured, more priceless, than knowing the Word of God. As Solomon spoke these proverbs to his son, God is also speaking to us as His own children. "All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it." (Proverbs 8:8-11). Is it any surprise that Satan seeks so relentlessly to keep Christians from reading what God has written, the only sure way of knowing right from wrong? When we commit ourselves to be obedient to reading God's Word, our first considerations become love, loyalty, and service to our Lord. "Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." (9:9-10). This wisdom and understanding covers every aspect of life: physical, moral, spiritual, financial, and our social well-being. The basic difference between the wise man and the fool is in the use each makes of his time, talents, and material possessions. When we rely on God and His Word it will result in loving obedience to Him. "The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked." (10:1-3). We all are on one of two roads in our journey through life. The road followed by the wise is narrower and more difficult, but it brings happiness, satisfaction, peace, and eternal life; however, the broad road of the fool inevitably leads to a life of self-interest, leaveing one never satisfied and always wanting something more ultimately resulting of eternal death. In today's reading Jesus Christ is revealed as the Creator who prepared the heavens (Proverbs 8:27-31). "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." (John 1:3). Today's Prayer:
Dear Lord, As we earnestly seek and follow You our minds are being renewed daily. Our ambitions, goals, and affections are being transformed into what You created us to be. It is in dying to the world that we become alive unto Christ and it is through Your mercy that we offer our lives today as living sacrifices. Bless us with the wisdom we need to follow the journey that You have prepared for us. In Jesus' name......Amen. Have a great and mighty day!
God Bless,
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