Posted on 06/21/2022 8:04:41 AM PDT by metmom
“‘Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened’” (Matthew 7:7–8).
Our heavenly Father is generous to us and promises we have access to His eternal and unlimited treasure to meet our own needs as well as the needs of others. Even when we have been cleansed of our own sin, we need divine wisdom to know how to help a brother remove the speck from his eye.
God’s wisdom is one of our greatest needs. We can’t be discerning and discriminating without divine counsel from our heavenly Father; and the primary means for achieving that wisdom is prayer: “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him” (James 1:5).
Along with God’s perfect and infallible Word, we need His Spirit to interpret and illumine, to encourage and to strengthen. He does not want us to have all the answers; He wants us to be students who search the Scriptures. The Bible is a limitless store of divine truth. But apart from God Himself we can’t begin to fathom its depths or mine its riches. God gives enough truth for us to be responsible, but enough mystery for us to be dependent. He gives us His Word not only to direct our lives but to draw our lives to Him.
So when you need God’s wisdom to make spiritual decisions, ask God for it.
Ask Yourself
Part of feeling as though God isn’t providing us wisdom is that we don’t know how to receive it or what’s required in listening for it. How has God most often supplied you with the wisdom you need to handle a certain situation?
From Daily Readings from the Life of Christ, Vol. 1, John MacArthur. Copyright © 2008. Used by permission of Moody Publishers, Chicago, IL 60610, www.moodypublishers.com.
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Thanks, Metmom!
Christ will never leave you that are his, nor forsake you.....it cost Him too much to forget you...besides as been said ...”Not one drop of rain falls without God’s sure command.”
Part of feeling as though God isn’t providing us wisdom is that we don’t know how to receive it or what’s required in listening for it..... How has God most often supplied you with the wisdom you need to handle a certain situation?
I guess that however we measuret God’s love and favor or wisdom isn’t always by feeling just as the sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light.
Thank God my salvation doesn’t depend on me.
True that!
I learn more of His wisdom just this evening.....
He says seek and ye shall find....and that goes for what we can forsee we will need. at a future time.... So once you know this He gives us His wisdom to identify the way in which He’s going to meet that when He brings it into the present.
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