Today’s passage: Proverbs 8
Helpful thoughts:
- Wisdom and understanding are not the only voices crying out, but they are the voices we need to recognize and heed.
- The Lord and evil cannot share our affections and attention. To love one is to choose against the other.
- When we reject wisdom and righteousness and choose to sin, we are not simply being selfish or momentarily indulgent, we are rejecting God, loving death and wronging our own soul. Sin is rebellion and self-harm.
Questions to consider:
- Why does wisdom exist? Where did it come from? To whom must we look to attain it? Is wisdom a response to evil or is evil a depravation of wisdom?
- What does it mean to search for wisdom “diligently?” What will we be prone to see before our eyes? If we passively take in the world around us, what voices will we hear first and loudest? What must we do to seek for wisdom diligently?
- Consider taking inventory of your day. Write down what you did and what time it took. How much time did you spend doing the things you do? What “voices” had your ears and eyes? Praise God for the good! Ask for grace where we need to grow.
Prayer:
Lord, we live in a time where it seems like everyone has a voice. If we were to hear everyone that has something to say, there would be no time left in the day to even eat or sleep. Please give us grace to desire and value your words more highly than gold or silver, more highly than the voices on the news, more highly than the voices on social media, more highly than the voices in the movies, etc. Lord, please help us to redeem the time you’ve given! May we pursue wisdom and understanding diligently, that we could then exercise that wisdom in our daily lives through our own words and actions.