SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
5/21/2013 5:53 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
Wisdom helps us Face Life PT-1
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Eccl. 7:19-25
Message of
the verses: We begin today to look at the third positive
contribution that wisdom makes in our life from this seventh chapter of the
book of Ecclesiastes.
“19 Wisdom puts more strength in one wise person than ten
strong men give to a city.” (The
Message) “19 Wisdom strengthens a wise
man more than ten rulers who are in a city.”
(NASB) This is quite a statement,
but of course it is true. Dr. Wiersbe
writes “If we walk in the fear of God and follow His wisdom, we will be able to
detect and defeat the wicked one when he comes to tempt us. Wisdom will guide us and guard us in our
daily walk.” It is the evil one who
tries to cause us not to walk in the wisdom of the Lord, but when we do we
surely are more powerful than ten strong men give a city.
“20 Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who
continually does good and who never sins.” The Apostle Paul would agree with this
statement as he wrote “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of
God.” The Bible teaches us that because
of the sin of Adam that all born on this earth are born sinners. The Bible also teaches us that because we are
born sinners we sin and can do nothing about it on our own. There is a song that is entitled “Jesus Paid
it All.” It might be good to look at the
lyrics of this song.
- I
hear the Savior say,
“Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.” - Refrain:
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow. - For
nothing good have I
Whereby Thy grace to claim;
I’ll wash my garments white
In the blood of Calv’ry’s Lamb. - And
now complete in Him,
My robe, His righteousness,
Close sheltered ’neath His side,
I am divinely blest. - Lord,
now indeed I find
Thy pow’r, and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone. - When
from my dying bed
My ransomed soul shall rise,
“Jesus died my soul to save,”
Shall rend the vaulted skies. - And
when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
I’ll lay my trophies down,
All down at Jesus’ feet.
“21 Also, do not take seriously all words which are spoken,
so that you will not hear your servant cursing you. 22 For you also have
realized that you likewise have many times cursed others.” (NASB) “21 Don’t eavesdrop on others-you may hear
your servant curse you. 22 For you know how often you yourself have cursed
others.” (NLT)
These two
verses speak of a problem that we face which is what people say about us. Words can hurt us as much as wounds we can
receive to our body, as words affect our heart.
One of my favorite pastors from times past, Charles H. Spurgeon told his
pastoral students that they should have one blind eye and one deaf ear: “You cannot stop people’s tongues” he said,
“and therefore the best thing to do is to stop your own ears and never mind
what is spoken. There is a world of idle
chitchat abroad, and he who takes note of it will have enough to do.” Verse twenty-two can step on all of our toes,
for we surely have spoken harshly about someone else a few times in our lives.
The next
problem Solomon speaks of is found in verses 23-25 along with 3:11, & 8:17,
and this problem is our inability to grasp the meaning fo all that God is doing
in this world.
23 ¶ I tested all this with wisdom, and I said,
"I will be wise," but it was far from me. 24 What has been is remote and exceedingly
mysterious. Who can discover it? 25 I
directed my mind to know, to investigate and to seek wisdom and an explanation,
and to know the evil of folly and the foolishness of madness.” “11 ¶
He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity
in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done
from the beginning even to the end.” “17 and I saw every work of God, I concluded that
man cannot discover the work which has been done under the sun. Even though man
should seek laboriously, he will not discover; and though the wise man should
say, "I know," he cannot discover.”
When we
take the time to stop and look at all of the things that God has created, and
not only created, but keeps them going we will surely be amazed. We can look at the smallest animals to the
largest animals and we should realize that God created them and He also is in
control of all of them. Psalm 19 talks
about the stars and the planets and the earth and the sun, and God keeps them
all going. The sun is 93 million miles
away and if it were closer we would burn up and if it were further away we
would freeze. We can look in our
newspapers and find out what time the sun will come up and what time it will go
down. We can also see when the low and
high tides are along with when the moon will be full or whatever other shape it
will be seen and some will not even pay any attention to all these things that
God has created and keeps going. Dr.
Wiersbe writes about the wise man “the wise man knows that he does not know,
and this is what helps to make him wise!”
We don’t know how all of God’s creations work, but we who know the Lord
do not have to know how they work because we know the One who made them and
makes them work. The Apostle Paul writes
speaking of Jesus the following from the book of Col. “15 He is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn of all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created, both in the
heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or
rulers or authorities-all things have been created through Him and for Him.” (1:15-16)
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I can learn from this chapter how very
important it is for me to know God’s wisdom, and to keep learning more and more
of God’s wisdom. One way to do this is
to know the attributes of God and one way to know more about the attributes of
God is to continue to study the life of Jesus Christ while He was on planet
earth.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: Keep studying, and keep learning from the
most wonderful book ever written.
Memory verses for this week: 2Cor. 5:17-20
17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things have
passed away; behold, new things have come.
18 Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself
through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 namely, that God
was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses
against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ,
as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ,
be reconciled to God.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible Question: “The Roman-Gentile readers)
Today’s Bible Question:
“What did Jacob see in a dream on his way to Padan-Aram?”
Answer in tomorrow’s SD.
5/21/2013 6:58 PM
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