Devotional for Thursday, September 1, 2016
“May We Seek His Wisdom Early”
by Dona Hake
Wisdom is one of the most powerful things we can embrace. It is the ability to know exactly what to do in a situation. Wisdom will cause you to speak the perfect word to the one in need. It is knowing in your heart that you have a peace to step out in a specific direction or new path because you feel it is the voice of wisdom speaking to you. Wisdom will cause peace to reign in your heart even if confusion and anxiety are trying to rock everything within you. When things seem confusing and without answer, God desires to shed His wisdom to help you walk through whatever it is you are dealing with. It is then that we know that even though we may be walking through a dark valley, it is He that is leading us through!
One thing the Bible clearly states throughout Proverbs about wisdom is that it is to be sought after, and held as valuable as a jewel. We should embrace wisdom but we must follow her ways or we could be deceived by people’s opinions or the voice of circumstance. Over and over Proverbs emphasizes the need to embrace wisdom. Don’t let it go! Clearly God understands our human nature that we can tend to look to doing things our own way or we are moved by what we see and not what He sees.
Proverbs 8:17 (NASB)
“I love those who love me;
And those who diligently seek me will find me.”
Wisdom desires to be loved and embraced. I would like to share a few more translations from Proverbs 8:17 of how wisdom desires to be sought after.
(VOICE) “… those who search hard for me will find me.”
(WYC) “…and they who wake up early to seek me, shall find me.”
(YLT)”… And those seeking me earnestly do find me.”
May we set our hearts to diligently seek for the wisdom of God each day that we live. Know that we must seek it everyday for the wisdom that we walked in yesterday was for yesterday’s need. God desires to meet us each day with His fresh provision of all that He is. So let us seek Him this new day for that wisdom in Jesus Name!
