Monday Reading: Job 28 20-28
Key Verse: Job 28 28
28 And to man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom! And to depart from evil is understanding!
Devotion:
When Satan was able to pour out his evil on Job, Job continued in what He knew to be the truth. As much as Satan could hurl at him, he would not give in to the temptation to renounce God. It is true that he could not get his head round why this should all happen to him, but his faith in God remained because of one thing – his fear of God. Whilst his friends were trying to convince him that either he or his family had done wrong in order for God to be angry with him, he knew that he had not knowingly wronged God. He objected to the fact that others would think that that were possible for either him or his family to sin against God. He objected to the fact that people would even think that of his family.
We are like that in our lives too; when we think we are doing ok, we reject other people’s ideas that maybe we are doing something wrong. But it’s not just a simple rejection but a response to their accusations that may go a bit far. Whether we have the right to that rejection or not does not really lie with us but with God. We can know when we do things wrong and we can learn how to spot those times but we should never count on our own righteousness to get us through.
Wisdom can be defined as being that which God possesses that allows Him to do all that He does in heaven and earth. Nobody else can lay claim to the wisdom that He has in order to keep the universe in motion. All that wisdom is hidden from us. We cannot hope to attain that through learning. It has taken man many years to work out what atoms are made of and we still are theorising about unseen particles – we are only scratching at the tip of the iceberg of God’s wisdom! That wisdom is mans wisdom. But there is also spiritual wisdom which only God can reveal to us and we have a whole lot of that still to pick up too! The only way we will learn that is through respect for God’s Word.
Points to Ponder:
How much have you learned in your life?
How much wisdom has God to create even a single human cell?
Key Verse: Job 28 28
28 And to man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom! And to depart from evil is understanding!
Devotion:
When Satan was able to pour out his evil on Job, Job continued in what He knew to be the truth. As much as Satan could hurl at him, he would not give in to the temptation to renounce God. It is true that he could not get his head round why this should all happen to him, but his faith in God remained because of one thing – his fear of God. Whilst his friends were trying to convince him that either he or his family had done wrong in order for God to be angry with him, he knew that he had not knowingly wronged God. He objected to the fact that others would think that that were possible for either him or his family to sin against God. He objected to the fact that people would even think that of his family.
We are like that in our lives too; when we think we are doing ok, we reject other people’s ideas that maybe we are doing something wrong. But it’s not just a simple rejection but a response to their accusations that may go a bit far. Whether we have the right to that rejection or not does not really lie with us but with God. We can know when we do things wrong and we can learn how to spot those times but we should never count on our own righteousness to get us through.
Wisdom can be defined as being that which God possesses that allows Him to do all that He does in heaven and earth. Nobody else can lay claim to the wisdom that He has in order to keep the universe in motion. All that wisdom is hidden from us. We cannot hope to attain that through learning. It has taken man many years to work out what atoms are made of and we still are theorising about unseen particles – we are only scratching at the tip of the iceberg of God’s wisdom! That wisdom is mans wisdom. But there is also spiritual wisdom which only God can reveal to us and we have a whole lot of that still to pick up too! The only way we will learn that is through respect for God’s Word.
Points to Ponder:
How much have you learned in your life?
How much wisdom has God to create even a single human cell?