Today's Devotional

October 20,  2005

 

Subject:  Making Us Wise In Life

Proverbs 2:7  "He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly."

Another hurricane bears down on the coast of Florida and it's time for people to make decisions about staying, going, where to go and all of that.  In the aftermath of the last two major hurricanes that we have seen, this decision might be easy.  The hurricane is the strongest ever recorded and most people affected by Rita and Katrina are still dealing with its damage.  How do we make the right decisions in these instances of life?  How do we get wise so that we know what to do?

Well that's the problem.  As the verse above describes it, God gives wisdom to "them that walk uprightly."  In other words, I've got to do right and seek the right things and God will then show me the "right" path as I make decisions.  

I don't think this verse is saying that you can't be wise unless you are totally sinless but I do think it differentiates between intellectual decision-making and the "sound" wisdom that comes from above.  See the intellectual wisdom will always sound good and make good sense to carnal or worldly-minded people, but God's wisdom is preserved for His people.  Look at the verses that follow the one above.  

Pro 2:8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

Pro 2:9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [yea], every good path. 

Today if you want to learn how to become a good decision-maker in life, fix your walk.  It works for determining every good path.  Those paths will ultimately keep you out of the path of the storm, figuratively and sometimes literally.

Carlen