The Abundant Life Center

 

 

 

 

Today I want to encourage your heart to look around you, and be thankful for the gifts in your life that cannot be purchased with money.   Think about your precious family and friends, your church, special relationships that God has ordained for your life, etc…    May we be so grateful and thankful to God for those gifts that are truly His gifts and  treasures that we are enjoying here on earth.

 

 

 I am also thinking about how thankful I am for the wisdom of God.  Wisdom is found only on one road, and that is for those who desire for God and only God to direct their hearts. Let us value it and be ever so thankful that He said in His Word that it is there for us…all we have to do is ask Him.  I love this portion of scripture recorded in Job.    It beautifully paints an image of the beauty and worth of wisdom that comes only from our Lord!

 

 

 

Job 28:13-18

” No human perceives wisdom’s true value,

nor has she been found in the land of the living.

The deep says, “She is not to be seen within me.”

“Nor within me,” says the voice of the raging sea.

No gold can be given in trade for wisdom,

nor a sum of silver weighed out as her price.

She cannot be bought with all the gold of Ophir,

neither with onyx nor sapphire.

The shimmer of gold and brightness of glass cannot compare,

and no refined gold jewelry is worth her in trade.

Perish the mention of coral and crystal;

even more than pearls is the value of wisdom.”

 

 

 

Father, we thank You that Your wisdom is priceless, yet You so freely give it to us.   We cannot earn it…all we have to do is simply ask You.   Your Word says in James 1:5

 

 

 

May we quickly admit to ourselves if we are lacking wisdom in order that You may guide us with Your wisdom through life’s tough decisions or circumstances.   We praise You that Your ways and thoughts